Chief Nursing Officer
Mairead Hickey, PhD, RN, FAHA, is chief nursing officer and senior vice president of Patient Care Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a position she assumed October 3, 2005.
Nursing has been Hickey’s life's work since graduating from Boston College in 1972 when she became a staff nurse and nursing instructor at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, which later merged with other Boston hospitals to form BWH. She then moved to Connecticut where she earned her PhD and studied risk related behaviors in myocardial infarction patients and was an associate Professor and chair of the Graduate Program for clinical nurse specialists at Yale University.
Hickey returned to BWH in 1992 to create the Nursing Research Program, and through 1999 she held several director-level positions, including Patient Care Services, Research and Outcome Measurement, and Quality Management Services. She was vice president of Women’s Health and Specialty Services from 1999 to October, 2005.
In addition to serving as Chief Nursing Officer at BWH, Hickey has held adjunct faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and Boston College School of Nursing. She is widely published with dozens of peer-reviewed papers on topics such as quality and safety in nursing care and the needs of families of critically ill patients to her credit.
Philosophy on Nursing Education
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