Christine Gall

Christine Gall is a DrPH-prepared nurse executive whose career spans the bedside, hospital operations, national quality data, and virtual care. As Chief Nursing Officer at Collette Health, she led the clinical deployment of virtual nursing and virtual observation programs for health systems across the country, and her customer engagement work contributed to two consecutive national Best in KLAS awards.

Earlier, as Corporate AVP of Patient Experience at HCA Healthcare, she shaped patient experience strategy for a 180-hospital system and trained more than 1,500 leaders in nurse leader rounding. At SCL Health she led patient experience and performance improvement across nine hospitals in three states, where every hospital met its HCAHPS threshold goals in key domains. At Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Virtual PICU Systems, she led data quality for an international pediatric intensive care database, coordinated a $7 million AHRQ grant on national pediatric quality measures, and earlier built Wisconsin’s first pediatric extended care program.

She holds a Doctor of Public Health in Leadership from the University of Illinois Chicago, an MS and BSN from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an Executive Business Analytics Certificate from the Wharton School, and a Six Sigma Green Belt. Widely published in journals including Critical Care Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, and Pediatrics, she speaks nationally on virtual nursing, hybrid workforce models, nurse leadership, and rural healthcare.