Gail Casper

Gail Casper, Ph.D., R.N.,  received a bachelor's of science in nursing from Marquette University; her master's of science in nursing, with a dual focus on medical-surgical nursing and education, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and a doctorate in nursing from Case Western Reserve University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Services Research and Medical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

 

A long-standing interest in patient decision-making and health informatics led her to study with Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan at Case Western Reserve University and later to pursue a post-doctoral fellowship in patient-centered interventions with Dr. Brennan at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casper’s research has focused on patient inputs to health care decisions and evaluating the impact of consumer health informatics on patient outcomes in chronic illness. Casper has served as deputy director of Project HealthDesign since its inception in 2006.