Olivia Bahemuka
Professor of Practice
Gordon E. Inman College of Nursing
RN; Postdoc Fellowship (Global Health Leadership) University of Washington; DNP (Executive Nurse Leadership) University of Alabama at Birmingham; MSN (Management of Health Systems) Queens University of Charlotte; BSN (General Nursing) Queens University of Charlotte; BA (Christian Education) Kuyper College
615-460-6703olivia.bahemuka@belmont.edu
Biography
Olivia Bahemuka joined Belmont University August 2017 as an Assistant Professor before stepping into her current role as a Professor of Practice. Dr. Bahemuka comes to Belmont from University of Illinois at Chicago’s Human Resources for Health Program Consortium with the government of Rwanda; where she worked as Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor the past 2.5 years. Previously, Olivia completed a post-doc fellowship that required her spending a year in Uganda and Botswana working with AIDS/HIV and TB National Programs. Olivia’s nursing practice experience includes working as Advanced Nurse Coordinator for Hematology-Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant at UAB Hospital, coordination of regional professional nursing education with the Charlotte Area Health Education Center, a part of the greater NC AHEC; and critical coronary care nursing with Carolinas Healthcare System. Working with organizations like Hearts Afire, and churches like Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, and Christ Covenant Church in Charlotte; Olivia has helped organize and lead numerous medical mission groups to Uganda; an endeavor she started as a nursing student at Queens University where she led her graduating class on the college’s first international student medical experience to Africa in 1997.