Dr. Julie Campbell is a Registered Nurse with a PhD in Nursing. She has more than 20 years of nursing experience in a variety of clinical and academic settings, as well as lived experience as the mother of a young adult daughter with multiple disabilities. She currently holds the position of Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Lee University School of Nursing in Cleveland, TN. Her areas of interest and expertise include health literacy, self-management, and disability equity. She co-chaired ADHCE's response to the National Council on Disability's Request for Information on disability clinical care in January 2026, and she is currently leading a scoping review on measuring outcomes of disability training for healthcare professionals with fellow ADHCE members. She is also a member of the American Association on Health and Disability, Disability Equity Collaborative's Research Workgroup, Tennessee Disability Coalition, National League for Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, American Nurses Association, and Tennessee Nurses Association (District 4 Board Member).
Rebecca N. Weston, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE, 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 healthcare curricula, with emphasis on inclusive simulation, interprofessional education, and health equity for people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities.
She is the creator and course director of Exploring Disability in Healthcare, an undergraduate nursing elective aligned to the Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education, and co-developer of 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.
Dr. Weston serves as Vice President of the Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education and was selected as a Golisano Fellow in Developmental Disability Nursing (2025–2026). Her current research includes scoping reviews of disability competency frameworks and methods used to measure disability training efficacy, alongside studies of game-based learning and clinical judgment in pediatric nursing education. She has presented nationally at the American Public Health Association, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the Society of Pediatric Nurses, and received the University of Maryland School of Nursing Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2025.
Linda Long-Bellil, JD, PHD
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Linda Long-Bellil is an Assistant Professor at Commonwealth Medicine/University of Massachusetts Medical School. She conducts research and policy analysis on issues related to health care, including reproductive health care, and long-term services and supports as they pertain to people with disabilities. She also 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 M Long-Bellil PhD, JD – was an ADHCE.org Founding Vice-President and Past President.Click hereto review the enormous scholarship/publications that Dr Long-Belil has authored/co-authored.
Andrew Symons, M.D. is President of the NYS Academy of Family Physicians. He states "I am a family physician at UBMD Family Medicine where I provide comprehensive care for children and adults. Health maintenance is a cornerstone of my practice, at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, together with a team of resident physicians, I care for adult patients who require hospitalization. I maintain excellent relationships with subspecialists and can coordinate consultation with them when my patients need specialized care.
My research is focused on medical education, particularly as it relates to determinants of student choice to pursue careers in primary care. I also supervise residents at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. Teaching students and residents keeps me sharp. I serve as the vice chair for medical student education in the Department of Family Medicine and have a special interest in teaching students about the central role of family medicine in providing high quality, cost-effective health care. I direct the first-year clinical skills course in the medical school and routinely lecture in that course on the fundamentals of performing a patient interview and physical exam. I developed and implemented a curriculum to teach students to care for patients with disabilities. In addition, medical students participating in their family medicine clerkship and clinical skills course accompany me as I see patients, to deepen their understanding of patient care.
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.
Linda Long-Bellil, JD, PHD
Andrew Symons, MD