Thomas Smith, RN
Senior Vice President, Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer

Thomas Smith joined CHA from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York where he worked for 10 years, most recently as Chief Nursing Officer where he led the work that resulted in Mount Sinai's designation as a Magnet Hospital for nursing excellence.

Smith previously worked at Massachusetts General Hospital as Chief of Intensive Care and Pediatric Nursing Services and at Boston City Hospital as Director of Nursing and Chief Nurse Executive. Smith has been part of numerous professional organizations including; the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Organization of Nurse Executives, National Student Nurses Association and the Advisory Board of Nursing Spectrum. Smith is a nationally known nursing leader and has published extensively, and has earned awards including the Grace Davidson Award from the College of Nursing at New York University and the Distinguished Service Award from the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association.

He earned a bachelor's degree in sociology at Brown University where he graduated magna cum laude. He went on to earn a nursing degree at the University of the State of New York, and later a master's in medical-surgical nursing at the Boston University School of Nursing. He is also finishing his doctoral degree at the Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing.

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