Our Team: Commercialization Council

Nancy Albert Ph.D., CCNS, CCRN, CNA Director of Nursing Research and Innovation

Nancy Albert, PH.D., Director of Nursing Research and Innovation in the Nursing Institute and Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure at the Cleveland Clinic Dr Albert is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland Ohio. Nancy is Immediate Past President of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses, she is on the Leadership Team for the Council of Cardiovascular Nurses of the American Heart Association and she is actively involved in many nursing and medical association and corporate steering committees including ‘Get with The Guidelines' for the American Heart Association, OPTIMIZE-HF for GlaxoSmithKline and IMPROVE-HF for Medtronic, Inc. Dr Albert conducts nursing research, mentors others in initiating nursing research and is an administrator, clinician, educator and consultant in heart failure and nursing research. She has published many articles and book chapters and has presented both nationally and internationally on a variety of cardiac topics, most notably in heart failure. In October 2006 she received the "Partners in Research" award from the Center for Hospice, Palliative Care & End of Life Studies from the University of South Florida and in March 2007, she received the "CNS Researcher of the Year" award from the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.