Kristine Ruggiero

Kristine Ruggiero, PhD, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC, is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner and clinical associate professor at the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She brings more than 22 years of experience as a clinician and nursing educator, having taught at Salem State University, MGH Institute of Health Professions, and Emmanuel College. At Boston Children’s Hospital, where she has practiced for more than ten years, she delivers ambulatory specialty therapeutics in the Infusion and Day Treatment Program (Waltham), including biologics and complex infusion regimens, with a focus on infusion safety, reaction management, and care optimization.

Her scholarly and teaching interests include high-reliability advanced practice provider (APP) care models; Food as Medicine approaches that translate dietary guidance into nutrition strategies for growth, metabolic health, and disease prevention; pediatric gut health and the gut–brain axis; and pediatric migraine management. Ruggiero is an AJN award-winning author, a two-time maternal–child health textbook author, and author of Fast Facts Handbook for Pediatric Primary Care (2021), with a new edition currently in development.