Since joining Beth Israel in 1999, Shirley has managed the inpatient Oncology unit and more recently, the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. In 2007, she received the Beatrice Renfield Circle of Excellence Award for Nursing Leadership, and in 2010, she received the Beth Israel Wholeness of Life Award. Beginning in 2008, Shirley collaborated with the leadership of the Urban Zen Foundation on an initiative to provide an optimal healing environment for the patients of the Beth Israel cancer unit through the use of integrative therapies. She is a firm believer in spiritual support as it relates to healing, and therefore works to create an interdisciplinary team, utilizing music and yoga therapists in addition to NYZCCC’s Contemplative Care Chaplains, who provide hundreds of hours of support a year to the patients, families and nursing staff on the cancer unit.