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Dr. Lesley Bainbridge holds a master’s degree in education and an interdisciplinary doctoral degree with a focus on interprofessional health education. She is the Director, Interprofessional Education in the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Principal, College of Health Disciplines at the University of British Columbia and has held these positions since 2005. She acted as Head of the Physical Therapy program and interim Director of the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, both at UBC, prior to her current positions and prior to that worked for 5 years as a clinical physical therapist and for 15 years in senior administrative positions in the health system.

Dr. Bainbridge’s areas of special interest are interprofessional health education (IPE), collaborative practice, leadership, evaluation of IPE, curriculum development related to IPE, interprofessional practice education and other areas related to IPE such as rural health, geriatrics and underserved populations.

Dr. Bainbridge has been, and is currently, principal or co-investigator on several Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund grants, Health Canada’s “Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient Centred Practice” project in BC, and several other research grants related to IPE, community teachers and shared decision making. She is involved with the Future of Medical Education in Canada and its recommendation related to inter and intraprofessional education and co-chaired the Standards Development Working Group for a national Accreditation for Inter-professional Health Education project. She has published in peer reviewed journals on IPE and informed shared decision making and has presented on IPE related topics at several national and international conferences.