Nancy M. Albert

Nancy M. Albert, PhD, CCNS, CHFN, CCRN, NE-BC, FAHA, FCCM, FHFSA, FAAN, is associate chief nursing officer for Cleveland Clinic’s Office of Nursing Research and Innovation, and a clinical nurse specialist in Cleveland Clinic’s Kaufman Center for Heart Failure in the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. With extensive experience and expertise, Dr. Albert is an administrator and scientist and leads a program of research in heart failure.

Throughout her career, Dr. Albert has been influential in the healthcare industry actively volunteering on steering committees, work groups and task forces of many national healthcare organizations. She has published more than 315 peer-reviewed articles in nursing and medical journals, written book chapters and is a national and international presenter. She is the editor of a book (2016): Building and Sustaining a Hospital-Based Nursing Research Program (Springer). Additionally, she has received several professional awards and recognitions, holds 4 national nursing certifications, including being a board-certified nurse executive, is a Fellow at 3 organizations and is an adjunct associate professor at an Ohio-based school of nursing and a full professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. In 2015, she participated in a year-long AONE-Arizona State University Interprofessional Fellowship in Innovative Health Leadership.