Hena Waseem, MD, MPH

Hena Waseem, MD, MPH, assistant professor of neurology, joins the Neurocritical Care team in the Department of Neurology. Originally from Florida, she has lived mostly in the New England area for the last 10 years. After undergraduate and medical school in Florida, she completed her neurology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She remained there to complete a Leadership and Preventive Medicine Fellowship while obtaining her master's in public health from The Dartmouth Institute. During that time, she collaborated with the NH DHHS in the emergency COVID-19 response and also worked as an instructor at The Dartmouth Institute. She is both board-certified in neurology and preventive medicine. 

Dr. Waseem’s research focuses on quantitative and qualitative healthcare systems improvement, implementation science, with the goal of improvement of the patient/family experience, medical trainee experience, and standards of care for the neurologically critically ill. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach, her interests focus on improving shared decision making during the critical illness phase in diverse population groups. She hopes to use this to effect positive change at all levels of the field, from patient- and hospital-level initiatives to global public health practices, especially in low-income country settings. 

Dr. Waseem shares, “I’ve always been interested in areas of multi-disciplinary teamwork. I find the neurocritical care unit to be a mixture of multiple specialties, including critical care illness, neurological diseases, both medical and surgical, as well as an area where shared decision making is critical and can profoundly affect patient outcomes.” 

When she is not treating patients, she enjoys spending time with her family and two cats, reading, and travelling.