Leah Adeline Phillips
College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta, Canada
Biography
Leah Adeline Phillips, PhD, Director of Research and Policy, College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Leah Phillips is the Director of Research and Policy at the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA), an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Psychology; a Masters of Arts in Sociology, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Health Sciences and in 2017 completed a Fellowship for Health Systems Improvement. Dr. Phillips’ work supports the regulatory mandate for the Licensed Practical Nurse profession. Using best evidence to develop regulatory policy, Dr. Phillips strives to collaborate with researchers and innovation stakeholders to create knowledge on LPN practice, lead and facilitate research to support regulatory excellence, use the best empirical evidence to support and create evidence informed policy.