Nancy 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, workgroups 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.