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M. Julia B. Felippe, MV, MS, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Community Engagement

Professor Julia Felippe has been an educator and researcher at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine since 2002. Throughout the years, she has taught in each of the 4 years of the DVM program, including problem-based learning, large animal clinical skills labs, OSCEs, case-based lectures, and teaching through service on the clinical floor. Her Veterinary Clinical Immunology elective course uses flipped-classroom, peer-teaching, and learning reflection models for practicing evidence-based reasoning. She also developed content for interactive animated videos to teach DVM-students the complex steps of B cell differentiation and antibody production in the lymph node. 

Julia served as a director of the veterinary curriculum and a Provost’s Fellow for Public Engagement, promoting community-engaged learning. She is currently a member of the AVMA Council on Education, and the Associate Dean for Community Engagement. 

She received her veterinary degree from Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP-Botucatu, Brazil, and worked for 5 years in equine practice before an internship and residency in equine internal medicine at Kansas State University. She is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and received a Master of Science degree from Kansas State University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in immunology and immunogenetics from Cornell University. She also runs a research program studying equine developmental immunology and immunodeficiencies as the Head of the Equine Immunology Laboratory. Julia serves as the vice-president of the Veterinary and Comparative Clinical Immunology Society, VCCIS; as an associate editor for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, JVIM; and as the editor of the Equine Clinical Immunology book.