CLEVELAND – University Hospitals Case Medical Center has appointed Catherine S. Koppelman as Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). In this role, she will develop, implement and evaluate nursing standards, practice, nursing education and research in all settings where nursing care is provided.

Koppelman will work in collaboration with Chief Medical Officer Nathan Levitan, M.D., to manage the Office of Patient Care, Nursing, and Medical Outcomes. She will provide leadership for nursing and nursing resources, as well as social services. Together with Dr. Levitan, she will focus on bed control/utilization, case management, clinical risk management, bioethics, infection-control and quality outcomes.

She will begin Jan. 29 and will fill the position currently held by Ron Dziedzicki who has been promoted to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Operations.

Fred C. Rothstein, M.D., president and CEO of University Hospitals Case Medical Center said, “We look forward to having someone of Catherine Koppelman’s caliber joining our leadership team. She will help us not only maintain, but enhance our already excellent nursing services and resources.”

Koppelman joins University Hospitals from the Summa Health System, Akron, where she has been vice president of patient care services since 1997. Prior to Summa, she worked for 12 years at the former Mt. Sinai Health Care System, where she served in various roles including vice president for patient care services and vice president for nursing. She also has worked at MetroHealth Medical Center, the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, and early in her career at UH as a staff nurse.

She holds a nursing diploma from St. Vincent Charity Hospital, a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Cleveland State University and a master of science degree in nursing from Duke University. She also completed the Johnson and Johnson Nurse Executive Fellowship Program at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, this past June. She has received several awards for excellence in nursing and leadership.

She is a resident of Beachwood, Ohio.