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Leslie Higgins

BSN 1972, MSN 1975 - Distinguished Alumna and Faculty

Recognized for her research interests that include patient understandings of chronic illnesses and how those understandings affect patients’ willingness to make the therapeutic changes nurses prescribe. She has served as a family nurse practitioner in Nashville for more than 30 years and still practices one day per week in Belmont University’s Student Health Services.