Julie Haizlip is Clinical Professor of Nursing and faculty in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) where co-directs the UVA Center for Interprofessional Collaborations. She became interested in mattering while completing a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and began researching mattering in healthcare shortly thereafter. She is currently principal investigator on a grant from the Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education entitled Characterizing Cultures of Mattering in Health Care Education. Dr. Haizlip helped develop and is a core faculty member of the UVA Train-the-Trainer Interprofessional Team Development Course.