Mary Beth Kingston, PhD, RN, FAAN

Mary Beth Kingston is chair of the Chamberlain University Board of Trustees and has served as a system chief nursing officer at Advocate Health Care, Advocate Aurora Health, and Einstein Healthcare Network. She is a member of the Board of Governors of Main Line Health and the Board of Directors of Providence St. Joseph Health. Kingston is a former AONL president and was chair of the Hospitals Against Violence advisory group at the American Hospital Association. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow and received the Pennsylvania Nightingale Award for Nursing Administration in 2007. In 2024, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by both AONL and The DAISY Foundation™. She has been named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives and became a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2020.