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Joanne DeSanto Iennaco is an Assistant Professor in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Specialty and holds a PhD in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University's School of Public Health. Joanne currently works with Yale's Occupational and Environmental Medicine research team where she studies the effect of psychosocial aspects of the workplace on health.
Prior to pursuing her PhD, Joanne was a tenured Associate Professor of Nursing at St. Joseph's College in Maine, where she was the program director for the BSN Opportunities program. In addition to teaching psychiatric mental health nursing and community health nursing, she was instrumental in developing the College's successful service-learning program. As Project Director, she developed a college-wide service-learning infrastructure, community partnerships and promoted service-learning integration by faculty. She was honored with a Faculty Service-learning Award in 1998 from the Maine Campus Compact and with St. Joseph's College Outstanding Faculty Award in 1999.Joanne is a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the American Public Health Association, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the Society for Occupational Health Psychology, and Sigma Theta Tau International.
Research Interests
Research interest include Occupational Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression, Suicide, Violence, and the interface between mental and physical health.
Clinical Practice
Her clinical work is in adult and community mental health, where she has worked as a Visiting Mental Health nurse, and in Adult Inpatient Psychiatric, Admissions, Emergency Department, and Day Treatment settings.
Please feel free to visit Joanne's blog: Mental Notes
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