I have been teaching at Ithaca College since 1981 and have been department chair during most of my years here. My major areas of interest are public health, international health, drug policy, and health communication and have taught courses in each of those areas. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, University of North Carolina, and Penn State before coming to Ithaca. I also worked as an administrator for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina for 3 years. I like developing new courses and new programs. For example, "Front Page Public Health" is a new course that starts with current news events and investigates the "stories behind the story." When I'm not teaching, you can usually find me sailing on Cayuga Lake in the summer or cross-country skiing in the woods in winter..

Classes Taught
- Health Sciences: Foundations & Careers
- Medical Terminology
- Introduction to Vocabulary of Medicine
- Pre & Post Internship Seminar
- Health Services Site Visits
- Cyborgs, Clones, and Policy: New Technologies in Health & Medicine

Julie has been at Ithaca College since 1987. In addition to teaching, she coordinates student summer internships. Also responsible for advising pre-professional students within the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance.

Member of the American Health Information Management Association and the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy

I have taught at Ithaca College since 1970. The courses I offer include "Critical Health Issues", "Health Care Law", "Applied Health Care Management" and "War, Hunger and Genocide: An International Perspective". After graduating from Harvard with a degree in Tsarist Russian History, I became a venereal disease investigator for the United States Public Health Service in New York City. Later I got an advanced degree in medical care administration at Columbia University.

Outside my academic areas of interest, I am an avid amateur military historian, with particular interest in the American Civil War, World War II and 19th Century British imperial campaigns. Supplementing the latter is my latest enthusiasm: collecting British military medals; I now have examples stretching from the 1842 war against Burma to Korea in 1951-3. For light reading, I am particularly fond of mystery authors Elizabeth George (American) and Bartholomew Gill (Irish). Speaking of Ireland, I may be the only person I know who has a love affair with that country without having a single ancestral tie to it.
In 1999, my wife and I spent nearly three months in the Republic of Ireland, mostly on the achingly beautiful southwest coast. Throughout the year, I sort military history books (what a surprise, eh) for the Friends of the Library book sales, where over 250,000 used books are sold to the public to raise funds for the Tompkins County Public Library. I have three grown children and a wife to whom I have been married since 1966. I live in a student neighborhood (East Hill) in a 100-year-old Victorian house which is falling down around our ears because I'm not much of an handyman.

I enjoy working at Ithaca College because of the good relationship that exists between the Health Policy Studies faculty. The four of us are a team, like and respect one another, and avoid the back-biting which is so often a part of academia. This is important because it makes teaching here a pleasure, creating an effective learning environment for our majors.

I have been teaching at Ithaca College since 1996. I was hired to teach a course on Managed Health Care and I now also teach courses on the policies involved in reimbursing health care providers and other critical health issues. It is important to understand how reimbursement and insurance shapes the health care system so we can begin to discuss who gets access to our health care system and who gets left behind. My academic interests remain focused on health insurance, provider reimbursement, and access to the health care system.

My career started in health care in Boston -first at a nursing home, then a hospice, then a large health maintenance organization. Although, my undergraduate degree was in English and American Literature from a liberal arts school, I found that as long as I could think critically and write well, I could find a job in any field I wanted. Health care excited me because there is so much about it that changes, and yet so much that stays the same.

I moved here to get married to my husband who is from Ithaca. After graduating with a masters degree from Cornell University, I worked at the Royal Women's Hospital In Melbourne, Australia for several months and made contacts with health care professionals who now run the National Women's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. One of the newer courses I offer examines health policy in Australia & New Zealand. Students can travel with me to Australia & New Zealand during intercession for college credit.

My personal interests include raising my two children, Zoe and Gillespie and most every weekend during the winter months, following the Cornell University's Men's Ice Hockey team.