Christine Eisler, executive director of faculty affairs in the School of Arts & Sciences and previously at Penn Nursing, died on May 24 after battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer known as Goblet Cell Adenocarcinoma. She was 48. 

Since 2005, Ms. Eisler had served as an administrator in several departments at Penn, including animal biology and biomedical science, both in Penn Vet. In 2011, she became the associate director of faculty affairs in Penn Nursing; she became the director six years later. In 2021, she became executive director of faculty affairs in the School of Arts & Sciences. 

Ms. Eisler is survived by her husband, Mark Lindsay; and her brother, Charles Eisler. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Christine’s name to METAvivor, an organization dedicated to metastatic breast cancer research, at http://donate.metavivor.org.