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Mike A. Leonis, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-4415

Fax: 513-636-7805

Email: mike.leonis@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Pediatric hepatology, especially acute liver failure; inflammatory disease processes of the liver; hepatoblastoma; mechanisms of hepatic tumor formation

Education and Training

MD: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1996.

PhD: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1996.

Procter Scholar: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2002-2005.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's, 1999-2002.

Residency: Primary Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 1996-1999.

Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 1999; Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, 2003.

Publications

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Stuart WD, Kulkarni RM, Gray JK, Vasiliauskas J, Leonis MA, Waltz SE. Ron receptor regulates Kupffer cell-dependent cytokine production and hepatocyte survival following endotoxin exposure in mice. Hepatology. 2011 May;53(5):1618-28.

Kenny AP, Crimmins NA, Mackay DJ, Hopkin RJ, Bove KE, Leonis MA. Concurrent course of transient neonatal diabetes with cholestasis and paucity of interlobular bile ducts: a case report.Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2009 Sep-Oct;12(5):417-20.

Leonis MA, Balistreri WF. Evaluation and management of end-stage liver disease in children. Gastroenterology. 2008 May;134(6):1741-51.

Caldwell CC, Martignoni A, Leonis MA, Ondiveeran HK, Fox-Robichaud AE, Waltz SE. Ron receptor tyrosine kinase-dependent hepatic neutrophil recruitment and survival benefit in a murine model of bacterial peritonitis.Crit Care Med. 2008 May;36(5):1585-93.

Leonis MA, Thobe MN, Waltz SE. Ron-receptor tyrosine kinase in tumorigenesis and metastasis. Future Oncol. 2007 Aug;3(4):441-8. Review.

Zinser GM, Leonis MA, Toney K, Pathrose P, Thobe M, Kader SA, Peace BE, Beauman SR, Collins MH, Waltz SE. Mammary-specific Ron receptor overexpression induces highly metastatic mammary tumors associated with beta-catenin activation.Cancer Res. 2006 Dec 15;66(24):11967-74.

Wetzel CC, Leonis MA, Dent A, Olson MA, Longmeier AM, Ney PA, Boivin GP, Kader SA, Caldwell CC, Degen SJ, Waltz SE. Short-form Ron receptor is required for normal IFN-gamma production in concanavalin A-induced acute liver injury.Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2007 Jan;292(1):G253-61.

Leonis MA, Toney-Earley K, Degen SJ, Waltz SE. Deletion of the Ron receptor tyrosine kinase domain in mice provides protection from endotoxin-induced acute liver failure.Hepatology. 2002 Nov;36(5):1053-60.