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Julie P. Dunne

Associate Professor of the Practice

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Julie P. Dunne, Ph.D., RN, PMHNP-涩里番下载, is an associate professor of the practice at the Connell School of Nursing and a teaching associate at Harvard Medical School. She is a certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and the founder of Drishti Holistic Wellness. Her research and clinical work focuses on mindfulness and mental health, with specializations in eating disorders and clinician wellness.

Dunne received a Ph.D. and master鈥檚 degree from 涩里番下载 and bachelor鈥檚 degree in nursing from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. Prior to completing the Ph.D., Dunne worked as a clinical instructor for 涩里番下载 at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Faulkner Hospital, a nurse practitioner at the Cambridge Eating Disorder Center, and a registered nurse at Walden Behavioral Care.

Selected Publications

  • Dunne, J., Flores, M., Gawande, R., & Schuman-Olivier, Z. (2021). Losing Trust in Body Sensations: Interoceptive Awareness and Depression Symptom Severity among Primary Care Patients.聽Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 1210-1219.
  • Schuman-Olivier, Z., Trombka, M., Lovas, D. A., Brewer, J. A., Vago, D. R., Gawande, R., Dunne, J., P., Lazar, S. W, Loucks, E., B & Fulwiler, C. (2020). Mindfulness and Behavior Change.聽Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 28(6), 371-394.
  • Dunne, J. P., Shindul-Rothschild, J., White, L., Lee, C. S., & Wolfe, B. E. (2019). Mindfulness in Persons with Anorexia Nervosa and the Relationships between Eating Disorder Symptomology, Anxiety and Pain. Eating Disorders, 1-12.

Clinical Practice

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner聽at Cambridge Health Alliance, Department of Outpatient Psychiatry