Carol Kuplen, MSN, BSN, has been named President of St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus.

Kuplen has been Chief Operating Officer of St. Luke's University Hospital since 2011.

In addition to her responsibilities as President of the Bethlehem Campus, she will continue as St. Luke's Network's Chief Nursing Officer, a role she has held since 2008.

As campus president, she is responsible for the operations, fiscal performance, quality outcomes and strategic initiatives for the Bethlehem-based hospital and related sites.

The title change reflects Kuplen's role and responsibilities and is consistent with the titles of the presidents of St. Luke's University Health Network's other five hospitals, according to Richard A. Anderson, President & CEO, St. Luke's University Health Network.

Kuplen has 32 years' experience in the nursing field and 24 years of hospital management experience, joining St. Luke's in 1987 as a patient-care manager and then as director of the Cancer Program for the Network. In 2002, Carol joined the St. Luke's Network senior administration as a Vice President and Senior Nurse Executive.

She received a nursing diploma from Pittston Hospital, Pittston, Luzerne County; a bachelor's degree in nursing from Georgetown University, and a master's degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Sigma Theta Tau Chiron Fellow in 2003 and completed the Johnson & Johnson - Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives in 2004.