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 the Director of Simulation Research at the College of Nursing's M. Christine Schwartz Experiential Learning & Simulation Laboratory.  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.