Julia Phillippi PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN is the Chair of the Family Care Community and the immediate past director of the nurse-midwifery educational program at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Over the course of her 20-year career, she has practiced in rural and urban birth centers and hospitals. She 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. Dr. Phillippi's research has been funded through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Nursing Research among others. She is 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 & Gynecologists.