Alita Campbell-mcadory MSN, RN, OCN

Alita Campbell is a Nurse Manager, in the Preoperative and Post Anesthesia Care Unit, affiliated with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas. Alita has been a nurse for over 30 years. She earned a Master of Science in Nursing with an emphasis in Leadership in Health Care Systems from Grand Canyon University, her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Victoria (Canada), and a Nursing Diploma from Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology (Canada).

She has been in various leadership roles for much of her career and has a wide range of experience in surgical nursing, including trauma, intensive care, hyperbaric medicine, home health, and emergency care. Her work with the Enhanced Recovery Program began in 2014, close to the introduction of the program at MD Anderson, and she has worked closely with many teams to help them navigate through the perioperative environment. Alita leads a team of nurses, who are engaged and able to support enhanced recovery as the program has grown.