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 Assistant Professor of Nursing. 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.