Donna Russell-Cook Named CEO Oklahoma Heart Institute

The Oklahoma Heart Institute, on the campus of Hillcrest Medical Center, has named Donna Russell-Cook as chief executive officer. Russell-Cook will lead the strategic initiatives for OHI Heart Hospital, the state’s largest hospital dedicated exclusively to the treatment of heart disease.
Russell-Cook has more than 20 years of professional health care experience. She most recently served three years as heart center administrator of Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. She also has weorked at Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System in Lenexa, Kahnsas; St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings Montana; and Arnett Clinic, Lafayette Heart Institute in Lafayette, IN.
Born in National City, CA, Russell-Cook grew up in a Navy family, which traveled across the United States and Asia.
She graduated from Parklane Academy in McComb, the earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and her master’s from the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse.
She also attended the Healthcare Advisory Board, Harvard Business School Affiliated Leadership Fellowship Academy.
She is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Administrators.
Russell-Cook is working with the Tulsa Community Foundation toward placement of the displaced Tulsa Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit Horses; and is participating in the American Heart Association’s “Go Red for Women” campaign.
Donna and her husband Joseph Cook live in Jenks with their two children Sydne’ and Carragan. She is the daughter of Jim and Sheila Russell of Magnolia, the granddaughter of the late Dwight and Jessie Mae Carter and Marie Russell, Hebron, IN and the late Lloyd Russell.