Dr. Dorothy M. Urschel DNP, ACNP-BC, MBA is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Health. She is an experienced health care executive who has held senior clinical and administrative positions. Prior to ascending to this position, Dr. Urschel served as Columbia Memorial Health’s Executive Vice President. She joined Columbia Memorial Health as Chief Operating Officer in 2019. Prior to this, Dr. Urschel was the Vice President of Operations and Chief Nursing Officer at Albany Memorial Hospital, part of St. Peter’s Health Partners system while also serving as St. Peter’s Health Partners’ Vice President of Cardiac and Vascular Services. Dr. Urschel has broad clinical experience in acute care, serving in Critical care, cardiology, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery. She has also held academic positions at multiple institutions since 1997 educating graduate nurse practitioners.

An accomplished clinician, administrator and academic, Dr. Urschel is a doctorally prepared acute care and family nurse practitioner. She also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration.