At 64 years of age, Julie wakes up every morning amazed and grateful to be alive and healthy, breathing with her native lungs despite two copies of F508del. Her interest in CF research led her to Stanford Medical School, where she worked with Dr. Jeffrey Wine in the Cystic Fibrosis Research Laboratory as she pursued her medical degree. She then completed a residency and two fellowships in Anatomic Pathology at Stanford. After training, she worked at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco, California as a surgical and skin pathologist. After retiring to take better care of herself and to be a full-time mom, she became a certified personal trainer and wellness coach for children and adults with CF. She then pursued teacher training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, followed by a two-year Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification program, and then coach training in Unified Mindfulness. She has taught meditation online to the CFRI community for the last nine years. Julie serves on the Board of Directors of CFRI and is Co-Chair of CFRI’s Research Advisory Committee.