
Caroline Dorsen
Caroline (she/her) is a nurse scholar, educator, and clinician whose passion is the intersection of health, substance use and social justice. She is the program director for the University Psychedelic Education Program (U-PEP) and Clinical Professor & Associate Dean for Clinical Faculty Affairs at NYU Meyers College of Nursing.
Caroline has co-authored numerous papers on the use of psychedelics, and was an invited panelist and expert reviewer for the 2022 National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s workshop “Exploring Psychedelics and Entactogens as Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders.” She received a BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, an MSN at Yale, and a PhD and postdoc at NYU. Caroline was the 2020 recipient of NYU’s MLK, Jr Faculty Award for “exemplifying the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through teaching excellence, leadership, social justice activism, and community building.” She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.