Dr. Kelly Small Casler, DNP, APRN-CNP, CHSE, EBP-CCo-Chair, Mentorship Committee; Advisory Council Member and Founding MemberDr. Kelly Small Casler is an Associate Clinical Professor at The Ohio State University College of Nursing where she teaches in the Family Nurse Practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. She has a particular passion for high quality FNP education and focuses her scholarship on simulation for graduate nursing education and Evidence-Based Practice in primary care. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and a certified Evidence-Based Practice expert. She is active in the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and serves on NONPFs simulation committee. Dr. Casler launched her nursing career 23 years ago as a surgical/burn/trauma critical care nurse and the last 18 years of her nursing career have been spent as a Family Nurse Practitioner working in both urban and rural family practice in Missouri, Kansas, and Ohio. Currently, she maintains a weekly clinical practice at The Healthcare Connection, an FQHC in Cincinnati, where you will often find a student by her side. Kelly obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree and certificate in Health Professions Education in 2018 through the University of Kansas School of Nursing and completed both a BSN and MS in Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her DNP project focus developed a toolkit to support primary care providers with evidence-based practice of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and she is currently expanding on that work by serving a 2 year term as the only nurse practitioner commissioner for The Lancet: Gastroenterology & Hepatology Liver Disease in Primary Care commission.
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