Dr. Dena Hassouneh
Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Season 06 - Episode 05
Dr. Dena Hassouneh, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Dr. Dena Hassouneh is a Professor at Oregon Health & Science School of Nursing. Her work focuses on inequities in access to and quality of health care and health professions education. Dr. Hassouneh completed her undergraduate education at the University of Washington and came to OHSU as a Master’s student in 1993. She completed studies in Community Health Nursing, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner between 1993 and 2006. Dr. Hassouneh graduated with her Ph.D. in 1999 and completed a post doc at OHSU in 2000. Dr. Hassouneh highlights the importance of doing research with marginalized and vulnerable populations. She describes her dissertation on domestic violence in the American Muslim community and how discussing the subject at all was considered taboo. Dr. Hassouneh was one of the first researchers to break the silence on this topic and laid the groundwork for women in American Muslim communities to form committees to address domestic violence in their own communities. Dr. Hassouneh is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
