Jeanette Ives Erickson is Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and Senior Associate at The Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership.

Ives Erickson is recognized for her patient advocacy, expertise in patient-care delivery model design, and multi-disciplinary professional practice model development. Her primary interest has been in the impact interdisciplinary teams have on patient-care outcomes. She has done extensive work on evaluating teamwork and the relationship of high performance teams to employee retention and job satisfaction. Another area of focus has been improving systems that support clinical practice including documentation of care and medication safety.

A graduate of Boston University Graduate School of Nursing, Ives Erickson was appointed to the executive team of the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1996 where she leads the institution's largest clinical division including nursing and the other health professions. In 1998, she was awarded an inaugural fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and in June of 2001, she was presented with the Mary B. Conceison Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership by the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives.