Education

• Southern California CSU DNP Consortium; Los Angeles/Fullerton, CA

  • Doctor of Nursing Practice, 2021

• California State University of Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA

  • Master of Science in Nursing, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, 2016

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Accelerated Second Degree Program), 2014

• Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) (Preliminary Internal Medicine Residency)

• University of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA

  • Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, 2007

Board Certification

• American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

  • Board Certified in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care

About Kasalyn

Kasalyn is a board-certified nurse practitioner working in General Neurology. Prior to nursing, she was a research technician with the Maternal, Child, Adolescent/Adult Center for Infectious Diseases at LAC-USC Medical Center, focusing on AIDS/HIV mother-to-child transmission. After working closely with nurses who were passionate about patient-centered care, she eventually earned an accelerated Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and shortly after a Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner. Interested in continuous implementation of evidence-based practice and in preparation for healthcare’s complex environment, she finally completed a Doctor of Nursing Practice.

Publications

• Kapetanovic, S., Aaron, L., Montepiedra, G., Anthony, P., Thuvamontolrat, K., Pahwa, S., . . . Kovacs, A. (2015). Effect of cytomegalovirus co-infection on normalization of selected T-cell subsets in children with perinatally acquired HIV infection treated with combination antiviral therapy. PLOS ONE, 10(3), 1-15. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120474

• Neely, M., Louie, S., Xu, J., Anthony, P., Thuvamontolrat, K., Mordwinkin, N., & Kovacs, A. (2015). Simultaneous plasma and genital pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of atazanavir and efavirenz in HIV-infected women starting therapy. The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. doi:10.1002/jcph.481