About Leslie
Stephens...
Leslie Stephens has been a nurse for 30 years, graduating from St.
Luke's School of Nursing in St. Louis in1978. Her first job as an
RN was in a remote village in Western Kenya, East Africa where she
worked in a 40 bed hospital called the Litein Cottage Hospital.
After returning to the States, Leslie returned to school and received
her BSN from University of Missouri, and subsequently moved to the
Washington D.C. area where she completed an MSN at the Catholic
University of America. While in the D.C. area, Leslie worked for
14 years as a research nurse at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). She transferred to the Food and Drug Administration in 1999,
where she served for 5 years as a Consumer Safety Officer and Regulatory
Project Manager.
Leslie received her commission in the U.S. Public
Health Service during her tenure at NIH. She has had the priviledge
of being deployed five times for various short term assignments
to provide nursing support at times of crisis throughout the U.S.
One such mission was to Bethel in 2004 during a critical nursing
shortage. It was this deployment that convinced Leslie that she
should return permanently to Alaska to work within the Alaska
Native Tribal Health system. She spent her first 2.5 years working
as Director of Outpatient Services at the Norton Sound Regional
Hospital in Nome. In January 2007 she transferred to the Anchorage
and began working at ANMC. Leslie is finishing up her MPH at UAA
and she is currently working with Dr. Trimble as the Neurological
Registries Research Manager and is very excited about the Stroke
Team's opportunity to provide the medical outreach on the Serum
Run in 2009.
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