Jim Cato is Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for Eclipsys Corporation. Prior to joining Eclipsys, Mr. Cato was Executive Vice President of Clinical Operations and Chief Nursing Officer for NCH Healthcare System, Naples, Florida. Previously, Mr. Cato served as Vice President of Patient Care at Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, VA.
He is currently adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Mr. Cato has published numerous articles and book chapters and is also a 2001 graduate of the Johnson and Johnson/Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives. He is a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in the Executive Nurse Fellows Program, and a Fellow of the AANA Journal Fellowship Program: Writing for Scientific Publication.