Board Of Directors

Meet the educators and clinicians guiding the Alliance's work.

Julie Campbell, PhD, RN

President

Julie Campbell is an associate professor and director of graduate studies at Lee University School of Nursing in Cleveland, Tennessee. A registered nurse with a PhD in nursing, she has more than 20 years of clinical and academic experience. She also brings lived experience as the mother of a young adult daughter with multiple disabilities.

Her areas of interest include health literacy, self-management, and disability equity. She co-chaired ADHCE's January 2026 response to the National Council on Disability's request for information on disability clinical care and is leading a scoping review on outcomes of disability training for health care professionals with fellow ADHCE members.

Her professional affiliations include the American Association on Health and Disability, the Disability Equity Collaborative's Research Workgroup, the Tennessee Disability Coalition, the National League for Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, the American Nurses Association, and the Tennessee Nurses Association, where she serves on the District 4 board.

Rebecca N. Weston, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE

Vice President

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Rebecca N. Weston is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she teaches pediatric nursing and disability-focused health professions education. Her scholarship examines how disability content is taught, measured, and embedded across health care curricula, with an emphasis on inclusive simulation, interprofessional education, and health equity for people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities.

She created and directs Exploring Disability in Healthcare, an undergraduate nursing elective aligned with the Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education. She also co-developed Interprofessional Disability Care, a graduate elective spanning nursing, medicine, social work, dentistry, and pharmacy. In partnership with Special Olympics Maryland, she leads simulation initiatives that recruit, train, and employ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as standardized patients, supported by institutional grants through the UMB Center for Interprofessional Education.

Rebecca serves as ADHCE's vice president and was selected as a Golisano Fellow in Developmental Disability Nursing (2025–2026). Her research includes scoping reviews of disability competency frameworks and disability training outcomes, as well as studies of game-based learning and clinical judgment in pediatric nursing education. She has presented nationally and received the University of Maryland School of Nursing Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2025.

Linda Long-Bellil, JD, PhD

Secretary

Linda Long-Bellil is an assistant professor at Commonwealth Medicine/University of Massachusetts Medical School. She conducts research and policy analysis on health care, including reproductive health care and long-term services and supports for people with disabilities.

She teaches in the Shriver Center's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program and educates current and future health professionals about providing high-quality care to people with disabilities. Linda was ADHCE's founding vice president and later served as president.

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Andrew Symons, MD

Treasurer

Andrew Symons is a family physician at UBMD Family Medicine, where he provides care for children and adults. He also works with resident physicians caring for adults at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. His professional leadership has included service as president of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians.

His research focuses on medical education, particularly what influences students to pursue careers in primary care. He serves as vice chair for medical student education in the Department of Family Medicine and directs the medical school's first-year clinical skills course, where he teaches patient interviewing and physical examination.

Andrew developed a curriculum to teach medical students to care for patients with disabilities. He also supervises residents and teaches students during their family medicine clerkship and clinical skills course.

Contacts

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About the Alliance

The Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education, Inc. (ADHCE), is a “501 (c) (3) Public Charity” organization of healthcare educators and professionals who are working to integrate disability-related content and experiences into healthcare education and training programs.

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