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M. Julia B. Felippe, MV, MS, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM
Professor of Medicine
Executive Director, Cornell Veterinary Educators Academy

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 executive director of the Cornell Veterinary Educators Academy. 

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.

Katherine M. Edmondson holds master's and doctoral degrees from Cornell University in the field of Curriculum and Instruction. She launched the Cornell Veterinary Educators Academy (CVEA) in 2021, in her former role as Assistant Dean for Outreach in Health Professions Education at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. She has led the CVEA’s Fellows Program since its inception and organized several conferences for veterinary educators, to support their development as teachers and leaders in their fields.

Dr. Edmondson spent her professional career at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell. She worked closely with veterinary faculty to support the teaching program, including the development and implementation of an innovative Problem-Based Learning curriculum that has been in place since 1993. She has conducted numerous faculty development workshops and seminars related to teaching and learning, metacognition and problem-based learning and has served as an educational consultant to veterinary colleges in the United States and internationally.

At the institutional level, Dr. Edmondson served as Cornell University’s Assessment Project Manager. In that capacity, she provided support for Cornell’s assessment and accreditation process, working with the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education to advance and coordinate activities across campus related to assessing student learning.

Dr. Edmondson’s research interests include curriculum development, students' approaches to learning, the application of concept maps to enhance learning and teaching, and the development of professional expertise. She has published articles on curriculum development and promoting meaningful learning in science and medical education. Other professional activities include serving as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, and as Vice President of the American Educational Research Association, representing Division I, Education in the Professions.