Empowerment Community Forum

Welcome to the Empowerment Community Forum! Join us for an evening of inspiring discussions and connections at 309 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. The event will take place on August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM (Central Time). Let's come together to learn, grow, and empower each other. See you there!

Meet and Greet Dr. Julie Philley is the sixth president of The University of Texas at Tyler. She also serves as Board Chair of UT Health East Texas.

A Professor of Medicine and board certified in internal, pulmonary and critical care medicine, Dr. Philley served as UT Tyler’s Executive Vice President for Health Affairs following the 2021 merger of UT Tyler and the UT Health Science Center at Tyler, which created a single, integrated university.

A native of East Texas, Dr. Philley was raised in Overton. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas Woman’s University and her MD at UT Health Houston’s McGovern Medical School, completing an internal medicine residency program at Johns Hopkins University/Sinai Hospital and a fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas.

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