CONNIE R. CURRAN, Ed.D., R.N., FAAN

Dr. Connie Curran is the president of Curran Associates, a healthcare consulting group specializing in healthcare services and human resources. She recently resigned as the founding executive director of C-Change, a national organization focused on the eradication of cancer.

C-Change participants included the heads of federal and state governmental agencies, for-profit corporations, the motion picture industry, and non-profit groups whose missions relate to cancer. There were approximately 150 C-Change participants. Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush served as co-chairs, with Senator Dianne Feinstein serving as vice chair.

Dr. Curran was the founder, president, and CEO of CurranCare, LLC from 1995 to 2000. CurranCare was a national management and consulting services organization that delivered dynamic leadership to the healthcare industry. When Cardinal Health acquired CurranCare in 2000, Dr. Curran served as president of Cardinal Health Consulting Services, providing leadership to approximately 200 consultants with expertise in surgical services, hospital operations and redesign, case management and home care.

Dr. Curran has held a variety of executive positions various healthcare organizations; she was the chief nursing officer of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, vice president of the American Hospital Association, and Dean at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Curran is also one of the most prolific scholars in the field with more than 200 publications and several research programs to her credit. She served as the director of two of the most comprehensive national studies on staff recruitment, retention, and labor market participation. More recently she has co-authored books on hospital–physician integration, hospital redesign, and optimized home care integration. She has served as the editor of Nursing Economics for the past 15 years.

In addition to having held faculty and administrative positions at several universities, she is a faculty member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She is a graduate of the Harvard Business School program for company owners and presidents. She serves on the boards of directors for Hospira, Inc., DeVry, Inc., Volcano Technologies, The National Student Nurses Association, and DePaul University; she chairs the board of Silver Cross Hospital.