Mike A. Leonis, MD, PhD
Title
Assistant Professor
Appointment
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Phone
513-636-4415
Fax
513-636-7805
Credentials
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: Pediatrics, 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.
Awards and Honors
- Best Doctors in America, 2008
- Young Investigator Development Award, Children's Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation, 2002.
- William Cooper Procter Scholar Research Award, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 2002-present.
- Pediatric Research Prize, American Liver Foundation, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, Dallas, TX, November 2001.
- Poster of Distinction, 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Orlando, FL, October 2001.
- American Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow Award, July 2001.
- 6th Annual Young Investigators Conference in Digestive Diseases, Invited Participant, Monterey, CA, April 2001.
- First Prize, Postdoctoral Fellows Research Forum, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, March 2001.
Publications, Most Recent
Leonis MA, Toney-Earley K, Degen SJF, Waltz SE: Deletion of the Ron receptor tyrosine kinase domain in mice provides protection from endotoxin-induced acute liver failure.Hepatology, 2002; 36:1053-1060.
Professional Organization Memberships
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
- American Gastroenterological Association
Abstracts
Leonis MA, Degen SJF, Waltz SE: A role for the RON receptor tyrosine kinase in a murine model of endotoxin-mediated acute liver failure. Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Orlando, October 2001.
Leonis MA, Toney-Earley K, Degen SJF, Waltz SE: A role for the RON receptor tyrosine kinase in a murine model of endotoxin-mediated acute liver failure. FASEB Summer Research Conference on Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinases, Snowmass, August 2001.
Leonis MA, Degen SJF, Waltz SE: A role for the RON receptor tyrosine kinase in a murine model of endotoxin-mediated acute liver failure.Gastroenterology, 120:Supp.1, A-28. Oral Presentation, Digestive Disease Week, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2001.
Special Interests
- Pediatric hepatology, especially acute liver failure
- Inflammatory disease processes of the liver
- Hepatoblastoma
- Mechanisms of hepatic tumor formation
Related Areas
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