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 Mark C. Saslo

Mark C. Saslo, LPN, BSN, MSN, D.S.N.

Associate Director Patient Care Services/Nurse Executive

VA Gulf Coast health care

Email: christopher.saslo@va.gov

Phone: 228-523-4679

Dr. M. Christopher Saslo serves as the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System (GCVHCS) Associate Director for Patient Care Services, a position he has held since July 2014.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Saslo was with West Palm Beach VAMC for 18 years where he served as Chief Nurse for Clinical Practice since May 2009.Between May 1998 and May 2009, Saslo was a practicing Adult Nurse Practitioner and from May 1996 through September 1998, served as a Primary Care Program Manager.

Saslo has more than 30 years of nursing experience with 20 of those years with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Saslo began his nursing career as an Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in 1984. In 1990, he received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Marywood University, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, followed by a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1995.

Saslo received a Doctor of Nursing Science from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, in 2007.

Saslo is a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and has been recognized both at the Florida state and local Advanced Practice Nurses Association for his contributions to the profession. He has also worked at the local and national level in HIV and has held a position as the National VA Ethics Advisory Chair for the Clinical Case Registry research program. He is a graduate of the VHA Class of 2013 Health Care Leadership Development Program.