Christine E. Kasper

Christine E. Kasper, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACSM, is the dean and professor of nursing at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.

Before joining Pitt, she was the dean, professor of nursing and the Virginia P. Crenshaw Endowed Chair at The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing. Dr. Kasper also served as a senior nurse executive in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Nursing Services. In her Veterans Affairs post, Kasper advised the chief nursing officer on academics, research and policy and was a professor in the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing at Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Kasper received her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Michigan, where she studied nursing and exercise physiology.

Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Rush University in physiology and biophysics, she served as professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, Los Angeles.

She also held the M. Adelaide Nutting Research Chair at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Master of Science in Nursing from Rush University and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Evansville.