Dr. Smyth has served as vice president of nursing and patient care services and CNO at The Johns Hopkins Hospital since February 2025, providing executive leadership for nursing practice, regulatory affairs, and patient and guest services. She leads the clinical care and strategic initiatives of the nursing department at the academic medical center. She first joined Johns Hopkins in 2018 as senior director of nursing for the department of emergency medicine at both The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where she standardized emergency nursing care across Baltimore City campuses. During this time, she also led the lifeline critical care transport team and served as co-director of the Judy Reitz Capacity Command Center. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Smyth served as CNO of the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital, overseeing large-scale emergency response, testing and vaccination efforts. In 2021, she was named vice president and CNO at Johns Hopkins Bayview, where she implemented strategies that reduced nursing turnover and improved engagement. Dr. Smyth first began her career as a bedside nurse in critical care, neonatal intensive care and emergency nursing.
