Jo Kline Cebuhar

Jo Kline (fka Jo Kline Cebuhar) is a thought leader on health care access and the founder of the Iowa Institute for Health Literacy. Now retired from a successful career as a business owner and attorney, Jo's 25-year journey of researching, writing and speaking about patient advocacy began when she served as volunteer chair of Iowa’s largest hospice over two decades ago. Jo has now incorporated her unique expertise on demographics, the health care workforce and health literacy into an innovative initiative, Bridges to Health Care Access. Its mission is to raise awareness of the threats to access and to share the life-changing strategies that can benefit every individual and "community."

Jo is the author of Patient or Pawn? - The Practical Guide to Health Care Advance Directives, The 60-Minute Guide to Health Literacy and the award-winning SO GROWS THE TREE – Creating an Ethical Will. Among other print, online and broadcast media, Jo has been featured in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Des Moines Register. She is a contributor to online news outlets, a frequent guest essayist for The Des Moines Register and the author of its ten-week series, Health Literacy 101.