Penelope Gorsuch

Biography

Penelope Gorsuch is an accomplished healthcare executive with more than 38 years of clinical experience and 27 years of progressive leadership. She has built cultures of inquiry and continuous improvement that support high-quality, value-based, reliable care across nationally accredited federal and civilian health systems. Her expertise includes strategic planning, evidence-based practice implementation, process improvement, and practice model development to support effective change management.

Penelope is an assistant professor of clinical practice at the Ohio State College of Nursing. She serves as director of the Master’s in Nursing Leadership and Strategy in Healthcare specialty track, DNP Executive Track faculty and EBP Leadership faculty with the Fuld National Institute for EBP. In 2026, she founded Gorsuch Health System Advisory, a consulting firm that helps organizations with strategic planning, clinical and leadership capability development, infrastructure and care models, and digital and AI integration. Previously, she served as senior vice president and chief nurse executive at Summa Health, associate director of patient care services at the Dayton VA Medical Center and in a variety of nursing and administrative leadership roles during 28 years in the United States Air Force Medical Service. Penelope earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Brenau Women’s College in Georgia, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Nebraska Medical Center as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Touro University Nevada. She serves as director of philanthropy for the Association of Leadership Science in Nursing and is a member of its board of directors. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on leadership and strategy.