Ruth Masterson Creber is a Professor of Nursing whose research focuses on improving quality of life for patients with cardiac conditions across the disease continuum, and developing innovative interventions for health care delivery. She is leading the evaluation of a mobile integrated health intervention for patients with heart failure to provide evidence to support a novel healthcare delivery service using community paramedics and facilitated telemedicine with emergency medicine teams to provide better transitions of care from hospital to home. Professor Masterson Creber is also leading global, pragmatic, cardiac surgery clinical trials across over 70 hospitals in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia to evaluate the impact of coronary bypass graft surgery on patient's quality of life, symptoms, and cognition. The results of these trials will help determine what type of graft vessels for coronary artery bypass graft surgery offer long-term symptom relief and improve cognitive function. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Heart Association and has received numerous awards for her work, and was recently inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Hall of Fame.

Professor Masterson Creber received her BA and BSN from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and School of Arts and Sciences, an MSc in Epidemiology from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Columbia University School of Nursing. Prior to joining Columbia University, she served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences in the Division of Health Informatics, and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine (2018-2022). Since completing her training, she has been funded as Principal Investigator by multiple NIH institutes and PCORI.

Dr. Masterson Creber has mentored multiple undergraduate students, Masters-level students, PhDs, and post-docs, many of which have gone one to receive their own federal funding and tenure-track faculty positions.