Dawn Joosten-Hagye is a teaching professor of social work and coordinator of interprofessional and team-based education at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. She engages in interprofessional education and scholarship at USC, nationally and internationally. She currently teaches graduate social work courses SOWK 643 Social Work Practice in Integrated Care, SOWK 612 Assessment and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders, and SOWK 523 and SOWK 525 Foundations of Integrated Social Work Practice I and II. She has taught numerous practice, research, policy and theory courses at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Her teaching is informed by her practice, service and research.

Joosten-Hagye has over 23 years of team-based collaborative practice experience specializing in adults and older adults with chronic, life threatening and co-morbid health, mental health and substance use conditions in community-based, inpatient, outpatient and private practice settings. Her service and research emphasize Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Collaborative Team-Based Healthcare Practice. She is the lead social work faculty member for both the GWEP Interprofessional Geriatric Curriculum program at USC and USC IPE Day. She participates as a lead social work faculty member in a virtual multi-university IPE training program of online health and related profession graduate and doctoral students both nationally & internationally.

During the COVID-19 pandemic she worked collaboratively with Keck Family Medicine and GWEP partners in the Age Friendly Student Senior Connection, a program that matched health care and related graduate and doctoral students with an older adult for social calls to combat isolation and loneliness. In 2019, her textbook "Social Work Practice with Older Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach" was released. She is primary co-editor for an IPECP textbook "Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: International Approaches at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels" (Joosten-Hagye, D. & Khalili, H., 2022). She is a consulting editor for the Journal of Health and Social Work and a certified grief counselor.