Associate Professor
University of Florida, College of Nursing
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Leslie Parker has a dual position at the College of Nursing and the College of Medicine at the University of Florida where she is an associate professor. She has been a neonatal nurse practitioner since 1990 and continues to practice as a NNP in the NICU at UF Health. She was the tract coordinator of the neonatal nurse practitioner program from 1992-2011. She has been involved in human milk research for nearly two decades and focuses on improving milk production in mothers of critically ill and premature infants. She is funded by the National Institutes of Health for her team’s work regarding neonatal nutrition including the risk of feeding tube contamination, risks and benefits of gastric residual evaluation and optimizing consumption of breast milk for preterm infants.