Paula Leslie is a Consultant Scholar located in Preston in the United Kingdom, where she is a Professional Advisor to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She joined the Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department which evaluates health technologies for The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (N.I.C.E.), Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. Her research interests include aging, swallowing disorders, quality of life, and ethics and decision making by members of vulnerable groups at the end of life. Dr. Leslie graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1995 with a BS in Clinical Language Sciences, and received a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2004. She worked for the UK National Health Service for 12 years before coming to the University of Pittsburgh where she served as Professor of Communication Science & Disorders and Director of Doctor of Clinical Science in Medical Speech-Language Pathology Program in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. In 2016 she earned an MA in Bioethics from the University of Pittsburgh with a thesis entitled That Won't Help The Meatballs: Health Care Providers' Perceptions of Eating, Drinking, and Feeding as Human Experiences. With Hannah Crawford, she published The Concise Guide to Decision Making and Ethics in Dysphagia. She returned to the UK in 2019.