She is on the editorial board of Anesthesia and Analgesia, the British Journal of Anaesthesia and Anesthesiology. She is one of the six editors of Miller’s Anesthesia (9^th edition), and has won the ASA/Boots Young Investigator Award, the ASA’s Gilbert Troup Medal, the ANZCA Gilbert Brown Prize and the ANZCA Douglas Joseph Professorship.

Leslie first became involved with multi-centre research with the B-Aware trial, a 2,500 patient multi-centre trial on awareness. She was/is also a chief investigator of the ENIGMA-I, ENIGMA-II, POISE-1, POISE-2, POISE-3, Balanced, RELIEF, PADDI, ROCKet and Chewy studies.

Leslie’s involvement with ANZCA began when she was co-opted as the New Fellow on the Victorian Regional Committee in 1994. She served on the VRC until 2002. In that same year, she was elected to Council. Leslie was a Primary Examiner for six years, and Scientific Convenor of the Annual Scientific Meeting held in Melbourne in 2000. During her time on Council she served as Chair of the Communications and Fellowship Affairs, Research, Training Accreditation, Investments, IMGS and Executive Committees; ASM Officer; Honorary Treasurer; and Chair of the Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine Foundation Board, as well as numerous other committees and working groups.

In 2012, she was elected President and served a two year term. During this time she was also a member of the Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges, and its chair from 2011-13. She is currently a director of the Australian Medical Council and chair of its Specialist Education Accreditation Committee.

Kate Leslie has received many accolades and honours during her career, including the Robert Orton Medal, the Melbourne Health Chairman’s Award, and fellowship of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Research. She was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2016 and was the first anaesthetist to be honoured with a Doctor of Medical Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of Melbourne.