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.

Dr. Kasper has been principal investigator on National Institutes of Health, NASA and Department of Veterans Affairs grants. She has CDMRP funding to study the role of 'desert dust' metals on the pathobiology of Gulf War Illness. She is also assessing the effects of blast injuries from embedded metal fragments in the military and was named to the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2015 for this work.

Dr. Kasper was editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research from 2008 to 2021, as well the founding editor of Biological Research for Nursing. She is a fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and American College of Sports Medicine.