Julie P. Dunne, Ph.D., RN, PMHNP-BC, 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’s degree from Boston College and bachelor’s 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 Boston College at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, a nurse practitioner at the Cambridge Eating Disorder Center, and a registered nurse at Walden Behavioral Care.
