Julie V. Philley | |
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6th President of the University of Texas at Tyler | |
Assumed office June 1, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Kirk Calhoun |
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Born | Julia Vallery Philley Overton,Texas,U.S. |
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Medical career | |
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Field | Critical care, internal, and pulmonary medicine |
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Julia [1] "Julie" Vallery Philley [2] is an American academic administrator and pulmonologist who is the sixth president of University of Texas at Tyler and the first woman to lead the university.
Philley was born in Overton, Texas. [3] She earned a bachelor's degree from Texas Woman's University. [4] She received a M.D. from McGovern Medical School. [4] She completed an internal medicine residiency at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Sinai Hospital. [4] Philley conducted a fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. [4]
In 2012, Philley became an assistant professor at UT Health East Texas. [4] She researches nontuberculous mycobacteria and bronchiectasis. [4] She later chaired the department of medicine at The Health Science Center at UT Tyler. [4] Philley was the executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Texas at Tyler and became its vice provost in 2022. [4] On June 1, 2024, she become the president of UT Tyler, succeeding Kirk A. Calhoun. [5]