Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

John Davis, M.B.A., D.N.P., R.N., F.N.P.-B.C., N.E.-B.C., is responsible for ensuring the delivery of optimal patient care through the coordination of nursing and patient care services, maintenance of quality assurance standards, and the appropriate allocation and management of nursing resources; in addition, John is responsible for respiratory therapy and capacity and throughput for the hospital.

John has 15 years of nursing and nursing leadership experience. He served as chief nursing officer at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) from 2021 until 2025. There, John has developed a reputation as a visionary leader with a solid track record for driving strategic growth and excellent patient outcomes. John led the Department of Nursing at UPMC St. Margaret hospital, a four-time Magnet designated organization. At UPMC Jameson and UPMC Horizon hospitals, he worked to decrease employee and nursing turnover, eliminating the need for external agency for all clinical areas post-pandemic. John began his nursing career at the Cleveland Clinic, where he first worked as a registered nurse in the cardiac step-down unit at the main campus before being promoted to nurse manager at Cleveland Clinic Florida and, eventually, to director of nursing for inpatient, critical care and emergency nursing at Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital. There, John led and operationalized a hospital-wide hospital-acquired infection council, as well as patient experience initiatives such as purposeful hourly rounding, decreasing infections and increasing patient experience results.

John holds a Master of Business Administration from Capella University, a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Akron and a Master of Science in nursing from the University of Cincinnati.