Dr. Cineas is senior vice president and chief nursing executive for NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal health system. She also serves as co-chair of the system’s equity and access council. She leads nursing strategy for a complex public health network that serves one in six New Yorkers, including highly diverse and medically vulnerable populations. Dr. Cineas is driving a systemwide rollout of the first-ever nursing care delivery model and daily management system, “CD2,” designed to standardize nursing practice and strengthen frontline nurses’ ability to identify and address social determinants of health throughout the care continuum, ranging from admission through discharge planning. In her equity role, she guides systemwide diversity and inclusion priorities, develops strategies to reduce bias and disparities in care, and establishes metrics to drive measurable improvement. She was instrumental in launching 12 system-wide inclusion groups, initiating health equity policy forums in collaboration with the City University of New York, and establishing a relationship with the DAISY Foundation. Dr. Cineas also serves as adjunct faculty at Columbia University School of Nursing and holds extensive national and civic leadership roles that amplify nursing’s voice in public health.
