Joseph Leanza, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Biography
I am an emergency medicine physician, public health practitioner, and the Director of Global Health at the BU School of Medicine.
My academic focus is in global health. In particular, I work on projects concerning emergency medicine specialty development and medical care during humanitarian emergencies. I am currently involved in initiatives in Iraq, Ukraine, and Pakistan and have previously worked in Uganda, Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ecuador, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. I am also involved with WHO working groups to conceptualize new approaches to humanitarian care in conflict settings.
My additional academic interests include:
-medical education
-rethinking the teaching and practice of global health, with an emphasis on bidirectional learning and cultural humility
-the intersections between climate change, urbanization, human migration, and health
Education
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, MD
- University of Pennsylvania, MPH
- Johns Hopkins University, BA
Publications
- Published on 3/13/2024
Patterson JL, Bryan RT, Turconi M, Leiner A, Plackett TP, Rhodes LL, Sciulli L, Donnelly S, Reynolds CW, Leanza J, Fisher AD, Kushnir T, Artemenko V, Ward KR, Holcomb JB, Schmitzberger FF. Life Over Limb: Why Not Both? Revisiting Tourniquet Practices Based on Lessons Learned From the War in Ukraine. J Spec Oper Med. 2024 Mar 13. PMID: 38300880.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/8/2023
Dozois A, González Marqués C, Thilakasiri K, Adeyeye AA, Leanza J, Rybarczyk M, Depp T, Wieland T, Karim N, Muchatuta M, Ali F, Amer A, Garbern SC, Patel S. A toolkit for decolonizing global emergency medicine education. Frontiers in Education. 2023; 8.
Read at: Custom - Published on 8/17/2022
Kivlehan SM, Hexom BJ, Bonney J, Collier A, Nicholson BD, Quao NSA, Rybarczyk MM, Selvam A, Rees CA, Roy CM, Bhaskar N, Becker TK. Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2021. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Oct; 29(10):1264-1274. PMID: 35913419.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/27/2021
Trehan I, Kivlehan SM, Balhara KS, Bonney J, Hexom BJ, Pousson AY, Quao NSA, Rybarczyk MM, Selvam A, Nicholson BD, Bhaskar N, Becker TK. Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2020. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 11; 28(11):1328-1340. PMID: 34310782.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/1/2020
Trehan I, Kivlehan SM, Balhara KS, Hexom BJ, Pousson AY, Quao NSA, Rybarczyk MM, Selvam A, Bonney J, Bhaskar N, Becker TK. Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2019. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Jan; 28(1):117-128. PMID: 32772445.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/18/2020
Rice B, Leanza J, Mowafi H, Thadeus Kamara N, Mugema Mulogo E, Bisanzo M, Nikam K, Kizza H, Newberry JA, Strehlow M, Kohn M. Defining High-risk Emergency Chief Complaints: Data-driven Triage for Low- and Middle-income Countries. Acad Emerg Med. 2020 Dec; 27(12):1291-1301. PMID: 32416022.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/4/2018
Holscher CM, Leanza J, Thomas AG, Waldram MM, Haugen CE, Jackson KR, Bae S, Massie AB, Segev DL. Anxiety, depression, and regret of donation in living kidney donors. BMC Nephrol. 2018 Sep 04; 19(1):218. PMID: 30180815.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/19/2018
Luo X, Leanza J, Massie AB, Garonzik-Wang JM, Haugen CE, Gentry SE, Ottmann SE, Segev DL. MELD as a metric for survival benefit of liver transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2018 May; 18(5):1231-1237. PMID: 29316310.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/26/2016
Massie AB, Leanza J, Fahmy LM, Chow EK, Desai NM, Luo X, King EA, Bowring MG, Segev DL. A Risk Index for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2016 Jul; 16(7):2077-84. PMID: 26752290.
Read at: PubMed