Gooden assumes new role as director of Acute Care Advanced Practice Providers

January 23, 2018

Angela Gooden was recently promoted to director of Acute Care Advanced Practice Providers (ACAPP).

In her new role, Angela will provide strategic leadership for the APPs in multiple departments within the Acute Care advanced practice organizational structure at the Medical Center Campus.

Angela brings broad experience and an extensive awareness of the issues affecting advanced practice to the role. She started her nearly 20-year career at Texas Children’s as a nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit before becoming a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in 2008. While working as an APP for the Cardiology service she attained her Acute Care post-master’s certification and continued to grow the practice of the entire Cardiology APP team. She was promoted to Acute Care APP Clinical Manager in 2014, and under her leadership the Cardiology advanced practice team has grown to one of the largest in the institution.