Rate My Professor Julia Choate

Professor Julia Choate is a Professor in the Department of Physiology within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. She serves as Director of Physiology Education, Biomedical Program Convenor, and Head of Teaching and Learning in the Physiology Department of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute. Over more than two decades at Monash, she has taught physiology to biomedical, medical, nutrition, and science undergraduates, focusing on student-centered active learning strategies.

Professor Choate enhances student learning and employability by developing innovative resources such as active guided-inquiry physiology workshops, virtual laboratories, and an embedded professional development program in the biomedical degree. Her evaluations of academics' attitudes toward supporting student career development and wellbeing have been published in leading journals. Key publications include "Tracking graduate outcomes of undergraduate physiology major students" (2025, Advances in Physiology Education), "Educators’ lived experiences of encountering and supporting the mental wellness of university students" (2024, Higher Education Research & Development), "Development of the Physiology Professional Skills Curriculum Mapping Tool (PS-MAP)" (2023, Advances in Physiology Education), and "Emotions Experienced by Instructors Delivering Written Feedback and Dialogic Feed-Forward" (2023, Teaching and Learning Inquiry). Her teaching excellence is recognized by awards such as the Australian Award for University Teaching Citation (2017), Otto Hutter Prize for Physiology Teaching (The Physiological Society), Michael Roberts Teaching Prize (Australian Physiological Society), Dean's Award for Excellence in Education - Innovation in Learning and Teaching (2023), Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2016), Head of School Biomedical Teaching Award (2007), and Monash Biomedical Students Association award (2020). Choate contributes to the academic community as an editorial board member for Advances in Physiology Education, Executive Member of HERDSA, and member of The Physiological Society's Education and Engagement Committee and the Physiology Majors Interest Group. She has presented invited lectures at the International Union of Physiological Sciences (2022) and Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology Annual Scientific Meeting (2022).