Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, PhD, RN, was Assistant Dean for Student Support and Clinical Facilitation and Assistant Professor of the School of Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions. She was also a member of the steering committee for the Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice and Health at the Institute. She was awarded Assistant Professor Emerita status in 2020.
She was the Institute Faculty Chair from April 2007 through August 2008.
She has served on numerous committees including the School of Nursing Faculty Committee Policy Committee, Generalist Level Committee, Advanced Practice Committee, Track Coordinators Group, and the Institute's Strategic Planning Group, Diversity Committee, and Academic Council.
Pat has extensive experience in community and public health. She was the Director of Community Programs in a home health agency, the Director of Clinical Services at a family planning clinic, and a clinical supervisor and consultant for community-based HIV prevention and education programs.
- BA, Biology, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
- BSN, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- MS, Nursing Administration, University of Massachusetts, Worcester
- PhD, Nursing/Health Promotion/Health Policy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell/Boston
Research Interests
- Program evaluation
- Community health
- Nursing Education
Presentations
Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, “Health Promotion Theories and Adolescence.” Presentation to the AHEC, Manchester, NH on October 1, 2003.
Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, “The utility of case study research methodology: Community Readiness for Needle Exchange.” Presentation to the Qualitative Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on February 1, 2005.
Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, “Executive Nurse Leadership Conference.” Presentation to The Institute of Healthcare Leadership, Cambridge, MA on October 1, 2008.
Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, “Executive Nurse Leadership Conference.” Presentation to The Institute of Healthcare Leadership, Cambridge, MA on October 1, 2009.
Seminars
Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, Case Study as a Research Methodology, Presentation presented to the UMASS Lowell, Doctoral Nursing Program. Qualitative Research Course, on October 1, 2004.
Articles
J. O’Sullivan and Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, Adolescent homelessness, nursing, and public health policy, Policy, Politics & Nursing, 7(1) 2006, 73-77.
Abstracts
Sheila Davis, Inge Corless, Linda Andrist, Patricia Lussier-Duynstee and P. Daost, Capturing the role of nurses in human rights, International Council of Nurses, 2009.