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Julia Buss was born in the United Kingdom on May 21, 1965. She is a registered nurse, health and safety research scientist, filmmaker, and science communicator. She is best known for her YouTube channel: "Your Care Plan" and her Blog "Your Care Plan" where she communicates evidence-based health advice. Julia has traveled the world extensively and has recorded her many journeys on a YouTube video blog.

Education
Buss completed her nursing training at the St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London in 1985. She then finalized an associate degree in Communications at Miami Dade Community College, Florida in 1998. She accomplished a baccalaureate degree at Brown University, Rhode Island in 2000. In 2005 Buss achieved her Master of Science degree in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. And in 2015 she accomplished her PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing at University of California, San Francisco.

Areas of Interest
The psychosocial factors for obesity risk and the effect of work on excessive weight gain. How the environment effects public health and how the public effects environmental health.

Early life
Buss was born in Oxford, United Kingdom in 1965. She was born the second child into a medical family. Her father John Buss, MD was a general practitioner in the UK’s National Health Service, and her mother Mary Sadtler (née Chetwood) was a registered nurse. Buss grew up in Bakewell, Derbyshire and later from the age of 13 in Wingham, Kent. She attended Lady Manners School in Bakewell followed by Simon Langton School in Canterbury. After high school Buss attended St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington, London. She graduated as a Registered General Nurse in 1988.

Career
After graduation Buss worked at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London and then at King's College Hospital, London. While she was at King’s College hospital, working in a sexual health clinic, Buss realized she wanted to care for people affected by HIV/AIDS. She came to the USA to gain professional experience as a nurse specializing in HIV/AIDS care. Buss took a travel nurse position at UC Davis Medical Center, San Francisco in 1991. Due to a nursing shortage in the USA at that time, Buss was able to become a permanent resident of the USA. In 1995 she returned to college to pursue a degree in nursing beginning her studies at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC). Buss took a literature class at MDCC with a teacher (Professor Bob Stambaugh) who inspired her academic career by teaching critical thinking and providing an historical and social context to the lives represented in literature. Taking Professor Stambaugh’s class motivated Buss to switch her degree to study literature. She then transferred to complete her BA at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. While at Brown, in 1999 she became a US citizen. She graduated in 2000.

Principal Positions Held

 * 1995 Staff Nurse Medical/Surgical Davies Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 * 2005 Clinical Research Coordinator AIDS Community Research Consortium, Redwood City, CA.
 * 2006 Director of Quality Improvement Initiatives American Heart Association Burlingame, CA.
 * 2007 Vice President of Quality Improvement Initiatives American Heart Association Burlingame, CA
 * 2010 Regional Director of Quality Improvement Initiatives American Heart Association Burlingame, CA.
 * 2016 Director, Continuing Education Program Center for Occupational and Environmental Health University of California, Berkeley, CA.
 * 2018 Deputy Director Center for Occupational and Environmental Health University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Other Positions Held

 * 2004 Staff Nurse Per Diem, Medical/Surgical California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 * 2018 Independent documentary filmmaker

Honors and Awards

 * 1998 English Literature Award Miami-Dade Community College, FL.
 * 2000 Community Service Award Brown University, RI.
 * 2015 Volunteer Service Award Angel Flight West.

Memberships

 * 2015 American Nurses’ Association.
 * 2017 The Obesity Society.
 * 2018 American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.

Presentations

 * 2003 Buss J., Kemper C., Sassoon S., Rosenbloom M., Deresinski S., Sullivan E., & Pfefferbaum, A. HIV Risk Factors and Depression in Patients with HIV Alone or in Combination with Alcoholism. 2nd International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment. Paris, France.
 * 2012 Buss J., Nouredini S. From Research to Practice: Creating Evidence-Based Interventions in Occupational Health Research. American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Conference. Nashville, TN.
 * 2013 Buss J., Lee K., Epel E., & Daubenmier J. Ghrelin, Eating Behaviors, Stress, and
 * Metabolic Factors among Overweight and Obese Women: Preliminary Evidence of Central Ghrelin Resistance in Obesity? National Clinical and Translational Sciences Predoctoral Programs Meeting. Mayo Clinic, MN.
 * 2014 Buss J., Chin JL. Occupational Stress and Obesity in Nurses: A Review of the Literature. Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses Convention, Orlando, FL.
 * 2014 Buss J., Hong O. Meal break practices among Registered Nurses. American Academy of Nursing Conference, Washington D.C.
 * 2015 Buss J., Lee K., Hong O. Work organizational factors, occupational stress, sleep quality, and obesity among hospital-based female registered nurses. Cardiovascular Health and Disease: Occupational and Environmental Factors. San Francisco, CA.
 * 2015 Buss J., Lee K., Hong O. Sleep Quality and Obesity among Female Hospital-based Registered Nurses. American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Conference. Boston. MA.
 * 2017 Presented: The Skinny on Work: Obesity on the Job at UC San Francisco’s Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease and Updates in Occupational and Environmental Medicine Conference. University of California, San Francisco, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Conference.

Public service

 * 1990 Outpatient clinic nurse, Curney Barnes Hospital Sierra Leone, West Africa.
 * 1999 Recorded and transcribed oral histories from hospice residents to share with loved ones and family members at Brown University.
 * 2004 Created a “Health Resume” as a tool for people with chronic illness to manage and track treatments and symptoms at California Pacific Medical.
 * 2005 Designed and taught health promotion classes for residents of single room occupancy hotels for the City of San Francisco.
 * 2010 Panel member for a heart disease and stroke prevention educational event. Panel members included Matt DeVane, MD, Lisa Blanton, and Nikola Tede, MD. W Hotel, San Francisco, CA at the American Heart Association.
 * 2015 Founding member and webmaster for the Nightingales Nurses, an anti-tobacco activist group.
 * 2016 Advocated for Angel Flight West, an organization that provides air transport to patients in need.
 * 2016 Volunteer research assistant and temporary employee for the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at UC Berkeley.
 * 2016 Ad Hoc Safety Committee CA State Insurance Fund.
 * 2018 Assist with animal care at the SPCA.
 * 2018 Reviewer for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Teaching

 * 2010 Led small group sessions (2-12) on quality improvement processes for hospital teams.
 * 2007 New-hire orientations, and staff training meetings for the American Heart Association.
 * 2015 Guest lecturer at Health Policy Seminar for nursing graduate students, San Francisco State University.
 * 2012 Guest lecturer in an epidemiology seminar for nursing graduate students, San Francisco State University.
 * 2015 Co-presenter for Research Priorities in Occupational Health for nursing graduate students at University of California, San Francisco.
 * 2015 Guest lecturer Occupational stress theory for nursing graduate students at University of California, San Francisco.

Research and creative activities

 * 2013 Clinical and Translational Research Fellowship (NIH).
 * 2014 Association of Occupational Health Nurses Foundation, Medique Products, New Investigator Research Grant.
 * 2015 Targeted Research Training Grant (NIOSH Pre-doctoral fellowship T42).

Publications

 * 2010 Buss, J. Small Steps to Big Changes: QI for you. Advance for Nurses online magazine’s health and wellness section.
 * 2010 Buss J. The sleepiness cure. Scrubsmag.
 * 2010 Buss J. “Your Care Plan, a nurse’s guide to healthy living” an informational book for nurses.
 * 2011 Buss J. The irony of the nurse who smokes. Scrubsmag.
 * 2012 Buss J. Stress and weight gain among shift-working nurses. Workplace Health & Safety. 60(10):453-8. PMID:23054165
 * 2012 Hong O, Buss J, Thomas E. Type 2 diabetes and hearing loss. Disease-in-a-Month. 59(4):139-46. PMID: 23507353
 * 2014 Buss J, Epel E, Havel P, Lin J, Blackburn E, Daubenmier J. Associations of ghrelin with eating behaviors, stress, metabolic factors, and telomere length among overweight and obese women: Preliminary evidence of attenuated ghrelin effects in obesity? Appetite. 76:84-94. PMID: 24462487
 * 2014 Tomiyama AJ, Finch LE, Incollingo Belsky AC, Buss J, Finley C, Schwartz MB, & Daubenmier J. Weight Bias in 2001 versus 2013: Contradictory attitudes among obesity researchers and health professionals. Obesity. 23(1):46-53. PMID: 25294247
 * 2014 Buss J. Limitations of Body Mass Index to Assess Body Fat. Workplace Health and Safety, Health Update section. Workplace Health & Safety. 62(6): 264. PMID: 24971823
 * 2015 Incollingo Belsky AC, Finch LE, Buss J, Guardino CM, Tomiyama AJ. An experimental field study of weight salience and food choice. Appetite. 89:215-218. PMID: 25698080.

Service to Professional Publications

 * 2013 Manuscript co-reviewer with Dr. Robyn Gershon for an article submitted to Nursing Research.
 * 2014 Manuscript co-reviewer with Dr. Jennifer Daubenmier for an article submitted to Psychoneuroendocrinology.
 * 2014 Manuscript co-reviewer with Dr. OiSaeng Hong for an article submitted to Journal of Advanced Nursing.
 * 2018 Manuscript reviewer, for 4 papers submitted to Nursing Research.

Films

 * 2012 Directed a documentary film “Knowland” to raise awareness about wildlife conservation for the Friends of Knowland.
 * 2016 Directed a documentary film “The Root Cause” to raise awareness about human effects on the environment.