Speaker
Amy Edwards, RN, MSN
Amy Edwards currently serves as corporate director of Lean transformation for Emory Healthcare. Ms. Edwards started her career as a bedside nurse in pediatrics in 2002, progressing to advanced practice as a nurse practitioner in 2009. In 2005, she began using process improvement principles for a project for her nursing clinical ladder program at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Since those early efforts to streamline process, she has held progressive leadership positions and joined Emory as a nursing specialty director in 2018. From 2018 to 2022, she partnered with organizational leaders to design and operationalize a 17-story cancer facility in Atlanta using Lean principles. Ms. Edwards lives in Atlanta with her two children and is an avid pickleball player.