The ADP Team are delighted to announce that Dr Paula Leslie is taking up a new post at UCLan’s School of Health Sciences from 1st May 2019. She will lead a new pre-registration MSc course for Speech and Language Therapy.
Paula has been a long-standing supporter of ADP and a highly valued invited presenter at many of our ADP conferences and seminar events. Her move to Preston provides the opportunity for her to be even more closely involved in our ADP initiatives in the future.
Dr Leslie brings with her 12 years of experience as a professor of communication and Science disorders at the University of Pittsburgh, and director of the advanced clinical programme, the Doctor of Clinical Science. Prior to that Paula was a member of the development team and director of the innovative MSc in Dysphagia and Dysphonia Research that ran at Newcastle University from 2002 – 2007. She graduated as an SLT from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1995 and worked for the NHS until 2006.
Paula maintains full clinical licenses in the USA and UK where she is a Specialist Adviser to the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapy in swallowing disorders. Her interests include the process of clinical decision making, health professionals’ education and non-traditional routes to advanced clinical training.
She publishes, provides support to researchers, and provides continuing education from grassroots to international level and across the health professions on complex clinical decision making, ethics and end of life decisions in vulnerable populations. Her awards include the Southwestern Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association Honours, the American Speech-Language Hearing Association DiCarlo Clinical Achievement Award, the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association Clinical Achievement Award, and Fellow of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (UK).
Welcome Paula, we are all looking forward to your arrival in Preston!
(Photo features Paula Leslie with Hazel Roddam at UKSRG in 2018; also starring a guest appearance by Justin Roe – can you spot him?!)