Julie Connelly, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities
434.924.2143
Dr. Connelly graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine (MD, 1977), then completed residency in Internal Medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA 1980). After her residency in Internal Medicine, she participated as a Kaiser Fellow in Internal Medicine and Medical Psychiatry at the University of Rochester with Arthur Schmale and George Engel. In 1983, she joined the University of Virginia where she participated as a general internist at University Physicians in Orange until 2004. Her academic and educational interests were focused on the patient and physician relationship, health perceptions, literature in medicine, and narrative and bioethics.
She was instrumental in helping UVA establish the "Patient, Physician, and Illness" course for first year students and served as co-director. She also helped establish the "Primary Care Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship" for third year students, the first to educate students in community settings. She served as co-director for that program for several years. She published in JAMA one of the initial articles on medical ethics in primary care settings. During the 1990s, she contributed to the growing discussion of literature in medicine and narrative ethics. She served on the council and as president of the Society for Health and Human Values (now the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities). With Kerr White, MD, she published The Medical School's Mission and the Population's Health. In 1996, along with Marcia Childress, she became co-director of the Program of the Humanities in Medicine.
She teaches an elective to 4th year medical students, Mindful Life/Mindful Practice and teaches Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction. She s director of The Healer's Art which she helped introduce as a new course at UVA in 2004. She presently practices geriatric medicine at the Orange County Nursing Home where she has been Medical Director since 1990.