Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Executive,
New York City Health + Hospitals
Natalia Cineas, DNP, MSM-N, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, FADLN, is Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Executive; CEO & Executive Sponsor, Community Care; Co-Chair, Equity and Access Council for NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal public healthcare system in the nation, serving over 1.4 million New Yorkers annually in 70+ patient care locations. She serves as clinical lead directing more than 9,600 nurses, responsible for planning, overseeing, and evaluating all aspects of clinical operations, services and nurse education to ensure the delivery of quality, safe, standardized, and cost-effective nursing care to patients and the community. As CEO & Executive Sponsor, Community Care, she leads strategic planning, operational management, statutory compliance, and comprehensive financial oversight with a demonstrated responsibility for profit and loss that fuels sustainable growth and strengthens organizational success. In her role as co-chair of NYC Health + Hospitals’ Health & Equity Access Council, she is actively engaged in identifying and defining systemwide strategic diversity and inclusion priorities.
Dr. Cineas previously held leadership roles as Senior Director of Nursing and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer at NYC’s Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, and as Patient Care Director of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Columbia University Medical Center New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Cineas serves as adjunct faculty at Columbia University School of Nursing. In 2025, she became an Inaugural Member of the Georgetown University School of Nursing’s Nurse Executives in Residence program. In 2023, she completed the Harvard Business School Leadership for Senior Executives Program. In 2022, she completed the Wharton Nursing Leaders Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. She also previously completed the Samuel H. and Maria Miller Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship program and the Coldiron Senior Nurse Executive Fellowship Program at Case Western Reserve University’s Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland. In 2021, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing; she currently is serving her second two-year term on the Academy’s Fellow Selection Committee and previously served on the Academy’s Health Equity Panel. In 2024, she was named an Inaugural Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing, a new fellowship program to recognize, support, and promote the crucial work that has been done to diversify the nursing profession by advancing health equity, creating anti-racism policies, and strengthening antiracism healthcare practices in an intentional way.
She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice from George Washington University; a MBA in Healthcare from Northern Arizona University’s W.A. Franke College of Business; a Master of Science in Management and a BSN from NYU, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Stony Brook University.