Dr. Leslie Davis is an assistant professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Since 2000 she has maintained a part-time practice as a nurse practitioner in cardiology at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a clinician, she has focused her care on patients with hypertension, heart failure, and acute coronary syndromes. Dr. Davis served as faculty and chair for a specialty series on cardiovascular topics for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2010 and 2011, served on the American Heart Associations Go Red for Women Task Force in 2012-2013, and in 2013-2014 served as chair and faculty for a group lecture series on hypertension sponsored by the AANP. She has authored and coauthored articles in the American Journal of Critical Care, Circulation, Critical Care Clinics of North America, Heart and Lung, the Journal of the AANP, the Nurse Practitioner, and Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing. She also served as a guest editor for a special edition of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners which focused on cardiovascular issues, published in November 2013.