Dr. Colleen Snydeman PhD, RN is the Executive Director of Patient Care Services, Office of Quality, Safety, & Practice, Informatics, the Center for Innovation in Care Delivery, and Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research. Dr. Snydeman is the MGH Connell -Jones Endowed Chair in Nursing Research.  She currently has a research grant from CRICO, The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions Incorporated for her patient safety study entitled: Predictive analytics combined with computer visualization enhances patient safety and eases nurse burden for preventing falls.

Dr. Snydeman collaborates with her Quality, Safety, Practice & Informatics teams, PCS leaders, and of over 70 clinical nurse specialists/nurse practice specialists on quality improvement, evidenced-based practice initiatives, and regulatory readiness.  She provides oversight of regulatory preparation and the measuring, monitoring, reporting & improving of nurse sensitive outcomes (pressure injuries, falls with injury, central line blood stream infections & catheter associated urinary tract infections). 

Dr. Snydeman works with her Innovation and Research teams on the mission to advance nursing science, innovation, and inquiry. This mission continues to be accomplished by leveraging philanthropic generosity, grants, and collaborative agreements that stimulate our nursing community to generate new nursing knowledge, innovative ideas, and advance evidence-based nursing practice and improve patient outcomes.

Colleen serves as a director on the Board of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) and Co-chairs their newly formed Clinical Excellence Committee. Colleen is also a director on the Board of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors. She is a member of the American Nurses Association Enterprise’s Research Advisory Panel and the National Quality Forum Healthcare Professionals Stakeholder Committee.

Colleen received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Northeastern University, a master’s degree in forensic nursing from Fitchburg State College and a PhD in nursing from Boston College.