Dr. Kenneth White serves as the Dean of the School of Nursing. He is responsible for the overall direction and management of the School. 

Prior to joining the IHP, Dr. White served as the Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships in the School of Nursing and Endowed Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia.  While at UVA, Dr. White also held joint appointments at the Darden School of Business, the McIntire School of Commerce, and the School of Medicine. He also maintained a clinical practice as a palliative care nurse practitioner at UVA Medical Center. Dr. White continues his affiliation with the University of Virginia as an emeritus professor.

From 1993-2013, Dr. White was a professor and directed the graduate programs in health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also held the inaugural Sentara Professorship in Health Administration until his transition to UVA in 2013. He has completed visiting professorships at the Luiss Business School in Rome and at the Swiss School of Public Health. He also has completed consultancies in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Guam, Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.

Earlier in his career, he was an executive with the Mercy Health System, an international provider of healthcare, where he led the civilian hospital on Guam and served in various administrative roles with Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City.

Dr. White is a Fellow in both the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Healthcare Executives. In October 2021, Dr. White began a two-year term as the President of the American Academy of Nursing, an organization with which he has been actively involved for years.