Julie Dunne

Julie P. Dunne, Ph.D., RN, PMHNP-BC, is an assistant professor of the practice at the William F. 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 her Ph.D. and master’s degrees 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 her Ph.D., Dunne worked as a clinical instructor for Boston College at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, as a nurse practitioner at the Cambridge Eating Disorder Center and as a registered nurse at Walden Behavioral Care.

Companies

• Teaching Associate Harvard Medical School (2022)
• Founder and PMHNP-BC Drishti Holistic Wellness (2020)
• Clinical Assistant Professor Boston College (2017)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Mindfulness and Compassion and PMHNP-BC, Outpatient Psychiatry Cambridge Health Alliance (2019 — 2021)
• PMHNP-BC, Partial Hospitalization Program Cambridge Eating Disorder Center (2015 — 2019)
• Clinical Instructor, Inpatient Psychiatry Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (2016 — 2018)
• PMHNP-BC and RN, Inpatient and Partial Hospitalization Programs Walden Behavioral Care (2013 — 2015)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Boston College (2013 — 2019)
• Master of Science - MS Boston College (2012 — 2015)
• Bachelor of Science (BS) Nazareth College (2008 — 2012)