Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Professor Julia Phillippi, PhD, MSN’99, FACNM, FNAP, FAAN, was elected to the National Academies of Practice as a Distinguished Fellow in the Academy of Nursing. Membership in the NAP is an honor extended to those who have excelled in their profession and are dedicated to advancing interprofessional education, scholarship, research, practice and policy in support of interprofessional care.
Members of the Class of 2025 were inducted into the National Academies of Practice during NAP’s annual induction banquet and awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 15, 2025.
Phillippi is the chair of the Family Care Community and the immediate past director of the nurse-midwifery educational program at VUSN. Over the course of her 20-year career, she has practiced in rural and urban birth centers and hospitals, and currently provides intrapartum care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her research focuses on access to perinatal care, interprofessional antenatal care and birth-center care models.
Phillippi is also a lead editor of the Varney’s Midwifery textbook, an associate editor of the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health and serves as a liaison for the American College of Nurse-Midwives to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The Academy of Nursing is one of 17 member academies that make up the National Academies of Practice.
Founded in 1981 to advise governmental entities on health care, the National Academies of Practice advances interprofessional education, scholarship, research, practice and public policy. Leading practitioners and scholars are elected by their peers from health professions to join NAP and advocate for the value of interprofessional practice and to improve health care and policy for all.