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Dawn Joosten-Hagye

Teaching Professor and Coordinator, Interprofessional and Team-Based Education

Specializing in interprofessional education and collaborative team-based practice with adults, older adults and their families/caregivers living with behavioral health, chronic and life- threatening conditions.

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Dawn Joosten-Hagye
Email:  joosten@usc.edu
Phone:  213.821.1318
Rank:  Teaching Faculty

Dawn Joosten-Hagye

Teaching Professor and Coordinator, Interprofessional and Team-Based Education

Specializing in interprofessional education and collaborative team-based practice with adults, older adults and their families/caregivers living with behavioral health, chronic and life- threatening conditions.

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Biography

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.

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles

PhD 2008

California State University, Long Beach

MSW 2002

California State University, Long Beach

BA 1998

Area of Expertise

  • Interprofessional education and collaboration
  • Older Adults
  • Chronic Illness
  • Social Work
  • Social Work Education
  • Behavioral Healthcare
  • Evidence-Based Practice

Industry Experience

  • Research
  • Social Services
  • Education/Learning
  • Elder Care
  • Public Policy

Research Interest

Behavioral Health

Accomplishments

Winner: Inaugural Lesley Diack Award International Network for Health Workforce Education (INHWE) Online, January 8, 2022. Showstark M, Wiss A, Embry E, Joosten-Hagye D, Resnik, C

USPHS IPEC 2022 Award: Health Communications and Health Technology Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). PUBLIC HEALTH EXCELLENCE IN INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COLLABORATION AWARD 2022 HONORABLE MENTION: HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS & HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

  • Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE)
  • Mary Showstark, MPAS, PA-C, Yale School of Medicine Physician Assistant Online Program
  • Dawn Joosten-Hagye, PhD, LCSW, University of Southern California Suzanne School of Social Work
  • Andrew Wiss, PhD, EdM, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
  • Cheryl Resnik, PT, DPT, FNAP, FAPTA, University of Southern California Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
  • Erin Embry, MPA, MS, CCC-SLP, New York University School of Culture, Education and Human Development
  • Elke Zschaebitz, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies

USPHS IPEC 2021 Award: Health Communications and Health Technology Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). PUBLIC HEALTH EXCELLENCE IN INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COLLABORATION AWARD 2021 HONORABLE MENTION: HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS & HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

  • Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE)
  • Mary Showstark, MPAS, PA-C, Yale School of Medicine Physician Assistant Online Program
  • Dawn Joosten-Hagye, PhD, LCSW, University of Southern California Suzanne School of Social Work
  • Andrew Wiss, PhD, EdM, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
  • Cheryl Resnik, PT, DPT, FNAP, FAPTA, University of Southern California Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
  • Erin Embry, MPA, MS, CCC-SLP, New York University School of Culture, Education and Human Development
  • Elke Zschaebitz, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies

Articles & Publications

Gurvich, T., JoostenHagye, D., Resnik, C., Reilly, J. M., & Halle, A.D. (2025). Communitybased geriatric interprofessional training program. Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 1-9. 

Wiss, A., Joosten-Hagye, D., Pattershall-Geide, J., Showstark, M., Zschaebitz, E., Potter, K., Embry, E., Hageman, H., Brooks, P. (2025). Development of the AI Acceptance Scale for Interprofessional Education (AAIPE) and Collaborative Practice Settings. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 100752.

Joosten-Hagye, D., Gurvich, T., Resnik, C., Segal-Gidan, F., Reilly, J. M., Thayer, E. K., & Halle, A. D. (2024). A community-based geriatric interprofessional education experience and its impact on post-graduate collaborative practice. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 1–9. 

Showstark, M., Joosten-Hagye, D., Wiss, A., Resnik, C., Embry, E., Zschaebitz, E., ... & Fieten, J. (2022). Results and lessons learned from a virtual multi-institutional problem-based interprofessional learning approach: The VIPE program. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 1-4.

Showstark, M., Joosten-Hagye, D., & Wiss, A. C. (2022). Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE): a Multi-institutional Innovation. Medical Science Educator, 32(1), 7-8.

Joosten-Hagye, D., & Khalili, H. (2022). Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice-International Micro, Meso, and Macro Approaches. CA: Cognella, Inc.

Showstark, M., Joosten-Hagye, D., & Wiss, A. (2021). Synchronous and Asynchronous Virtual Interprofessional Education: A Multi-institutional Collaboration.

Showstark, M., Joosten-Hagye, D., & Wiss, A. C. (2021). Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE): A Multi-Institutional Innovation. Medical Science Educator, 32(1), 7–8. 

Joosten-Hagye, D., & Khalili, H. (eds.) Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice-Micro, Meso, and Macro Approaches Across the Lifespan. CA: Cognella, Inc.

Joosten-Hagye, D., Katz, A., Sivers-Teixeira, T., & Cho, J (2020). The Age Friendly Student Senior Connection Program: An Interprofessional Pilot Program to Combat Loneliness and Isolation Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Interprofessional Care.