Leanne Davis is a Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Nurse Consultant, and since 2018 has been the nurse coordinator of the South Australian Statewide MND Clinic, based at Flinders Medical Centre. She closely works with the Neurology, Palliative Care, Respiratory and Swallow Disorders components of the MND Clinic; as well as providing support to various community teams involved in MND care. Prior to this role Leanne’s background was in cancer and palliative care nursing. She completed a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of South Australia in 1994, and a Graduate Diploma in Haematology and Oncology Nursing at the University of Adelaide in 1998.
In 2020-21 Leanne was awarded the South Australian Nursing and Midwifery Award for “Excellence in Practice”. This same year she was also awarded a Premier’s Nursing and Midwifery Travel Scholarship, for planned travel to investigate MND practices in the UK and USA, although due to the COVID pandemic this was subsequently converted to Australia wide travel.
