Leah Burt

Leah Burt, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, CHSE, is a nurse practitioner (NP), Clinical Assistant Professor, and Director of the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP Program at University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing, as well as a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Educational Quality Assurance at University of Illinois College of Medicine Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute. A former Fellow in Diagnostic Excellence through Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Dr. Burt is an educator passionate about discovering evidence-based ways to enhance diagnostic competence through innovative simulation.  

Influenced by experiences as an NP providing healthcare in medically underserved areas of Chicago, Dr. Burt’s Macy Faculty Scholars project, Lead-Dx (Learning Equity, Addressing Disparities in Diagnosis), is an educational program whose overarching goal is to prepare future clinician leaders to address diagnostic inequality. Lead-Dx will develop, implement, and evaluate a simulation-based educational curriculum to teach health professional students to better understand and mitigate diagnostic disparities.   

Andrew Olson, MD, Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Hospital Medicine; and Director, Medical Education Research and Innovation of the Medical Education Outcomes Center at the University of Minnesota Medical School will mentor Dr. Burt.