
Dola
Greene,
BA
Health Coaching Master’s Student & Research Assistant, Integrative Health Research Team
University of Minnesota
Dola Greene holds a B.A. in Human Physiology from the University of Minnesota and is a graduate student in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching. She is particularly interested in how health coaches can be integrated into interprofessional care teams, recognizing the profession’s potential to contribute across a wide range of sectors. Her diverse research background spans neuroscience, psilocybin-assisted therapy, CRISPR gene editing, and community-based participatory research. She is currently part of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program, contributing to Partners4Pain, an NIH-funded collaboration between researchers, community members, and organizations to create safe, accessible pain programs. Dola is committed to advancing health equity through culturally responsive, whole-person approaches.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Sustainable health behavior change in patients with chronic disease demands innovative, team-based solutions. Health coaches, with expertise in behavior change, are uniquely poised to strengthen interprofessional teams by empowering patients in sustainable lifestyle changes. Yet, many are unaware of the role health coaches can play and how they are trained. This presentation will demonstrate how integrating a health coach into collaborative care improves chronic disease management for many populations. We draw on reflective data from interprofessional simulations with nursing students and…