Chief Nursing Officer & Senior Vice President,
Patient Care Services, NYU Langone Health

Debra Albert, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC is Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services and the Lerner Director of Health Promotion at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Albert is responsible for ensuring contemporary, evidence-based nursing practice across all of NYU Langone Health’s care settings.

Dr. Albert is a recognized leader in patientsafety, transformative systems leadership, staff development and formal succession planning. She leads a diverse team of nursing leaders focused on interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal patient outcomes. As a mentor for nursing and female leaders, she develops programs that help build sustainable workforces. In addition, Dr. Albert is on the strategic steering committee of the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program, the Rush DNP Advisory Council and the Walden University Board of Directors. Albert also serves on the board for the American Hospital Association.

She received her BSN from The University of Akron, and a MBA from Cleveland State University. Later Debra would return to school to receive a Master of Science in Nursing from The University of Akron and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice, Transformational/Systems Leadership at Rush University.