Biography
Dr. Julie Rousseau is an advance practice nurse, faculty educator, and researcher working across the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at UC Irvine since 2009. Currently, she is a Project Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, School of Medicine and a Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine. She serves as the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Division, building partnerships and securing extramural funding for transformative research and clinical care for older adults. With Dr. Lisa Gibbs, she has worked on the launch and design of Remote Patient Monitoring at UC Irvine Health, UCOP/UC-wide digital HTN initiatives, the EMR-embedded Digital Health Literacy Score, and the creation of the Digital Health Engagement Center. She served on the UC Health Care at Home strategic planning committee. She has secured funding from HHS/HRSA, HHS ACL, Archstone Foundation, Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) State of California, National Science Foundation, and UCI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
While supporting the growth of nursing at UCI, she helped write the proposal securing the Sue and Bill Gross $40M gift to establish the Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing. In addition, she obtained funding to build and launch a new program Master’s Entry Program in Nursing (MEPN) for second-degree professionals to rapidly enter the nursing profession in response to the nursing shortage in the United States. In recognition of her teaching excellence, Dr. Rousseau was awarded the Faculty of the Year in 2015 and 2016 for the bachelor’s program. She partners with the Division of Complex Family Planning in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to research reproductive justice and compassionate nursing care for families facing loss. Through her clinical and didactic teaching as a Certified-Nurse Midwife and academic nurse researcher, she is an advocate for the midwifery model of care and nursing-led compassionate care delivery innovations. She has served as the Co-Chair of the American College of Nurse Midwifery Chapter in Los Angeles. In her work as a medical historian, she has focused on cultural analyses of gender, health, and conflict across geographic, ethnic, and historical divides.
Dr. Rousseau received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, summa cum laude, her doctorate and her MS in Women’s Health/Midwifery from Columbia University in New York City. She was a visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo, School of Medicine and is fluent in Japanese.
Honors and Awards
- 2016 Faculty of the Year, BS Program, University of California, Irvine School of Nursing
- 2015 Faculty of the Year, BS Program, University of California, Irvine School of Nursing
- 1999 Gerald D. Laubach Scholarship, Columbia University, School of Nursing
- 1994 Matsushita Fellow in the Humanities, Matsushita
- 1990 – 1991 Weatherhead Fellow, Columbia University
- 1989 – 1990 Columbia University President’s Fellowship, Columbia University
- 1986 Phi Beta Kappa, Georgetown University
