Joan Pirrung Named Interim President, ChristianaCare Cecil County Campus
Campus leader brings two decades of expert health care leadership to the role
Joan Pirrung, MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, has been appointed interim president, ChristianaCare Cecil County Campus.
She succeeds Arsalan Sheikh, D.O., MBA, FACE, who has returned to the more clinically focused role of chief medical officer, Cecil County Campus — a role he previously held.
Pirrung has served as the chief nursing officer at Cecil County Campus since 2020, and prior to that was vice president of Patient Care Services for Nursing at Union Hospital. She was closely involved in the integration efforts for both inpatient and outpatient services when Union Hospital joined ChristianaCare, and she is a member of the ChristianaCare’s Maryland Strategic Planning Committee.
Pirrung joined ChristianaCare in 1993 and has nearly two decades of leadership experience at the health system spanning emergency, acute inpatient, surgical and trauma services. In her many career accomplishments, she has been instrumental in systemwide engagement and influence for positive patient flow outcomes, nursing-sensitive outcomes and regulatory readiness. Through her Trauma Service leadership, she provided oversight and coordination for Christiana Hospital’s Level 1 Adult Trauma Center designation and Wilmington Hospital’s Level-3 Adult Trauma Center.
As a past president of the Society of Trauma Nurses and an American College of Surgeons site reviewer, Pirrung has brought her expertise in establishing and maintaining interprofessional collaboration with key stakeholders in the tri-state area to advance trauma care. Pirrung has presented and published nationally on a variety of clinical topics.
She received both her MSN as a cardiopulmonary clinical nurse specialist and BSN from the University of Delaware. She was awarded a certificate in Healthcare Leadership from the University of Delaware and was a graduate of the Health Management Academy GE Fellows Program for Nurse Executives, Class of 2021. She is board certified as a clinical nurse specialist for Adult Health. She has received numerous honors including a Delaware Today Top Nurses 2018 recognition and the University of Delaware Alumni Star Award in 2019.