Kelly Marie Casler DNP, APRN, FNP, EBP-C, CHSE, FAANP
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 simulation in graduate nursing education and Evidence-Based Practice in primary care. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and also has obtained certification as an 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 22 years ago as a surgical/burn/trauma critical care nurse and the last 16 years of her nursing career have been spent as a Family Nurse Practitioner working in both urban and rural family practice in Missouri 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 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 was on 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. Dr. Casler is also a proud U.S. Air Force spouse and mom to Caleb and Zach.