Dr. Kathleen Leslie
Associate Professor
Contact information
E-mail: kleslie@athabascau.ca
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Dr. Kathleen Leslie
Dr. Kathleen Leslie
Associate Professor
Contact information
Email: kleslie@athabascau.ca
Kathleen (Kate) Leslie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University and an Adjunct Professor at Western University. Dr. Leslie is a registered nurse and lawyer whose program of research focuses on the health workforce, professional regulation, scopes of practice, and health law and policy. She has secured over $1.5M in competitive funding as the nominated principal investigator and over $2.5M in competitive funding as a co-investigator.
Dr. Leslie is currently the principal investigator on a CIHR Team Grant on licensure reforms for internationally educated nurses and she leads the CIHR-funded Health Workforce Evidence Support and Knowledge Mobilization Hub. Dr. Leslie co-led the Canadian team that undertook a global review of health practitioner regulation for the World Health Organization (WHO) and led the first Canadian team to receive a National Council of State Boards of Nursing Center for Regulatory Excellence Grant.
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If you would like to learn more about Dr. Leslie’s current research program or are interested in getting involved, please reach out to kleslie@athabascau.ca.
Research interests
- Health law and policy
- Professional regulation
- Scopes of practice
- Nursing jurisprudence
- Health systems
- Nursing ethics
- Qualitative research
Educational credentials
- PhD (University of Toronto)
- JD (Western University)
- BScN (Western University)
Professional affiliations
- Registered Nurse (College of Nurses of Ontario, College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta)
- Lawyer (Law Society of Ontario)