Full Name
Leslie Evertson DNP GNP-BC
Job Title
Associate Director of Advanced Practice Providers, Dementia Care Specialist NP
Employer
UCLA Health
Speaker Bio
Dr. Leslie Chang Evertson is the associate director for advanced practice providers at UCLA Health. She has been a dementia care specialist nurse practitioner for the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (ADC) program since 2012. She is a content expert and trainer for the ADC program model of dementia care dissemination effort funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation. She is co-chair of the healthcare system dementia care intervention and software content expert for a pragmatic trial of two models of dementia care (health systems-based and community-based). Leslie is a member of the UCLA Health Pride Network core foundational group, the UCLA Nursing Unity in Diversity Council, and a guest lecturer at the UCLA School of Nursing.