Portland, Ore.

School of Nursing associate professor Dena H. Hassouneh, Ph.D., A.N.P., has been named a Macy Faculty Scholar, a prestigious award that comes with annual salary support over two years.

School of Nursing associate professor Dena H. Hassouneh, Ph.D., A.N.P., has been named a Macy Faculty Scholar, a prestigious award that comes with annual salary support over two years. The award from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation will give Hassouneh protected time to conduct research exploring new methods for increasing diversity in the health care workforce. Hassouneh was chosen on the strength of her proposed new research, career accomplishments, and past work examining inequalities in nursing education and disparities in delivering mental health care to women with physical disabilities. She has also worked to improve nursing education internationally by helping design and bring to fruition a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in the Palestinian territories. Both the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and Hassouneh’s colleagues at OHSU believe this work has the potential to shape the future of health care education and delivery for years to come.