Hospitals
10 chief nursing officers
These ten chief nursing officers currently hold CNO titles at health systems such as Kaiser Permanente, Ochsner Health and Yale New Haven Health. Their listed roles also span nurse management, clinical informatics, risk management and hospital administration, so readers can learn how nursing leaders run patient care operations inside hospital leadership teams.
Professionals to explore
01—10Beth Draves, MBA, BSN, RN
LinkedInExperience: Chief Nursing Officer · Banner Health
Chief Nursing Officer at Banner Health since 2025 and Interim Chief Nursing Officer there from 2023 to 2025. Her profile says she is responsible for the day-to-day operations of direct patient care activities and for clinical education and development across Banner's Tucson market; her Banner Health roles also include two Director of Nursing roles (2020–2021 and 2021–2023).
Courtney Vose DNP, MBA, RN, APRN, NEA-BC, FAAN
LinkedInExperience: Chief Nurse Executive, YNHHS and Chief Nursing Officer, YNHH · Yale New Haven Health
Chief Nurse Executive, YNHHS and Chief Nursing Officer, YNHH at Yale New Haven Health since 2026, and former Chief Nursing Officer at Yale New Haven Hospital (2025–2026). She is also Associate Clinical Professor and Senior Advisor to the Dean for Clinical Partnerships at Yale School of Nursing (since 2025) and was Associate Professor in the Division of Advanced Practice Nursing at Rutgers School of Nursing (2022–2025).
Dr. Irene Ondieki DNP RN-BC NEA-BC
LinkedInExperience: Chief Nursing Officer · NYC Health + Hospitals
Chief Nursing Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals since 2025 and Vice President Nursing Services at Stamford Health since 2023, both listed as current roles. Her listed roles also include Clinical Director Nursing Services at Montefiore Health System (2021–2023) and Director Of Nursing at RWJBarnabas Health (2013–2021).
Erica DeBoer
LinkedInExperience: Chief Nursing Officer · Sanford Health
Chief Nursing Officer at Sanford Health since 2020. Her Sanford Health roles also include Senior Executive Director of Clinical Informatics (2019–2020), Clinical Nurse Leader (2008–2019) and Clinical Nurse Educator (2004–2008), and she was Enterprise Client Executive Dedicated to Sanford at Vizient (2016–2019).
Katherine Santos
LinkedInExperience: Chief Nursing Officer · Kaiser Permanente
Chief Nursing Officer at Kaiser Permanente since 2022, a C-level role her profile lists in Anaheim, California. Her Kaiser Permanente roles also include Director of Risk Management (2020–2022), two Manager roles (2013–2018 and 2018–2020) and Registered Nurse (2011–2013).
Michele Lebron, DNP, MBA-HM, RN, CCRN
LinkedInExperience: Chief Nursing Officer · AdventHealth Lake Nona
Chief Nursing Officer at AdventHealth Lake Nona since 2026 and former Chief Nursing Officer at AdventHealth (2020–2026), a role listed in DeLand, Florida. Her other listed roles include Director Of Critical Care at AdventHealth (2017–2020), Nurse Manager at AdventHealth Central Florida (2014–2017) and Critical Care Registered Nurse at Florida Hospital (2003–2014).
Michelle Wallace,DNP,RN,TCRN,NEA-BC,FACHE
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer · Grady Health System
Executive Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer at Grady Health System in Atlanta since 2021. Her other Grady Health System roles include EVP, Chief Clinical Officer (2020–2021), SVP, Chief of Clinical Operations (2019–2020), Senior Vice President Clinical Operations (2017–2019) and Vice President Clinical Operations (2014–2017).
Natalie Nicholson
LinkedInExperience: Chief Nursing Officer · Denver Health
Chief Nursing Officer at Denver Health since 2025, where her profile says she leads the nursing division, and Associate Chief Nursing Officer there from 2021 to 2025. At Renown Health she was Director Of Nursing Medical Surgical (2020–2021) and Director of Nursing for Women Services (2015–2020).
Sheri Hawkins RN, MS, MBA, NEA-BC
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Patient Services and Chief Nursing Officer · Kettering Health
Vice President of Patient Services and Chief Nursing Officer at Kettering Health since 2021. She was Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at AdventHealth Kansas City (1999–2020), and her profile also lists Nursing Leadership Roles at Loma Linda University Medical Center (1982–1998).
Tiffany Murdock
LinkedInExperience: System Vice President Chief Nursing Officer · Ochsner Health
System Vice President Chief Nursing Officer at Ochsner Health since 2023; since 2026 her profile also lists the title Senior Vice President Chief Nursing and Clinical Excellence Officer there. At Singing River Health System she was Chief Executive Officer (2022–2023) and Hospital Administrator (2020–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Match the scope of the person's role to your question, since a system-level nurse executive and a single-hospital CNO see different problems. Also consider how recently they stepped into the top nursing job, because newer CNOs can speak to the transition while longer-tenured ones can speak to sustaining results.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you structure nursing leadership across several hospitals or campuses in one health system?
- 02Which measures do you review each week to judge nurse staffing and the quality of patient care?
- 03What did you need to learn when you moved from a director or associate CNO role into the chief nursing officer job?
About this directory
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