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Neurological Surgery

Jeffrey R. Leonard, MD

Current Position
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery

Specialty Areas
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Brain Tumors - Pediatric
Pediatric Spinal Deformities

Patients Seen At
St. Louis Children's Hospital
One Children's Place, Suite 4E
St. Louis, MO  63110
314-454-4630
Fax:   314-454-2818
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Mailing Address
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Neurological Surgery
660 South Euclid Avenue
Campus Box 8057
St. Louis, MO  63110

Areas of Clinical Interest
Pediatric spine disorders, pediatric neck disorders, pediatric neurosurgery, cogenital spinal disorders, pediatric neuro-oncology, spastic cerebral palsy, selective dorsal rhizotomy, craniosynostosis, Erb's palsy, brachial plexus palsy, brain tumor, neurofibromatosis, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, myelomenigocele, Chiari malformation.  More information on St. Louis Children's Hospital and craniosynostosis
Board Certification
Neurological Surgery -- Certified
Pediatric Neurosurgery -- Certified

Medical Education
B.A.: English, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1990
B.S.: Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1990
Medical Degree: University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, 1995
Residency: Neurological Surgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2002
Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Shriner's Hospital
St. Louis Children's Hospital

Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2009-2013 (Best Doctors, Inc.)

Recognized as one of the Top 44 Providers with the Highest Patient Satisfaction, Washington University School of Medicine, 2010

Selected or Recent Journal Articles
Akbari SH, Limbrick DD Jr, Kim DH, Narayan P, Leonard JR, Smyth MD, Park TS. Surgical management of symptomatic Chiari II malformation in infants and children. Childs Nerv Syst. 2013 Feb 7.

Gutmann DH, McLellan MD, Hussain I, Wallis JW, Fulton LL, Fulton RS, Magrini V, Demeter R, Wylie T, Kandoth C, Leonard JR, Guha A, Miller CA, Ding L, Mardis ER. Somatic neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) inactivation characterizes NF1-associated pilocytic astrocytoma. Genome Res. 2013 Jan 14.

Pineda JA, Leonard JR, Mazotas IG, Noetzel M, Limbrick DD, Keller MS, Gill J, Doctor A. Effect of implementation of a paediatric neurocritical care programme on outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Neurol. 2013 Jan.

Bandt SK, Greenberg JK, Yarbrough CK, Schechtman KB, Limbrick DD, Leonard JR. Management of pediatric intracranial gunshot wounds: predictors of favorable clinical outcome and a new proposed treatment paradigm. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Dec.

Ragan DK, McKinstry R, Benzinger T, Leonard JR, Pineda JA. Alterations in cerebral oxygen metabolism after traumatic brain injury in children. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2013 Jan.

Stoev I, Powers AK, Puglisi JA, Munro R, Leonard JR. Sacroiliac joint pain in the pediatric population. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Jun.

Dahiya S, Yu J, Kaul A, Leonard JR, Gutmann DH. Novel BRAF Alteration in a Sporadic Pilocytic Astrocytoma. Case Rep Med. 2012.

Xu Z, Joshi N, Agarwal A, Dahiya S, Bittner P, Smith E, Taylor S, Piwnica-Worms D, Weber J, Leonard JR. Knocking down nucleolin expression in gliomas inhibits tumor growth and induces cell cycle arrest. J Neurooncol. 2012 May.

Shah MN, Leonard JR, Inder G, Gao F, Geske M, Haydon DH, Omodon ME, Evans J, Morales D, Dacey RG, Smyth MD, Chicoine MR, Limbrick DD. Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging to reduce the rate of early reoperation for lesion resection in pediatric neurosurgery. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Mar.

Ragan DK, McKinstry R, Benzinger T, Leonard J, Pineda JA. Depression of whole-brain oxygen extraction fraction is associated with poor outcome in pediatric traumatic brain injury. Pediatr Res. 2012 Feb.

Creach KM, Rubin JB, Leonard JR, Limbrick DD, Smyth MD, Dacey R, Rich KM, Dowling JL, Grubb RL Jr, Linette GP, King AA, Michalski JM, Park TS, Perry A, Simpson JR, Mansur DB. Oligodendrogliomas in children. J Neurooncol. 2012 Jan.

Yarbrough CK, Powers AK, Park TS, Leonard JR, Limbrick DD, Smyth MD. Patients with Chiari malformation Type I presenting with acute neurological deficits: case series. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2011 Mar.

Perkins SM, Rubin JB, Leonard JR, Smyth MD, El Naqa I, Michalski JM, Simpson JR, Limbrick DL, Park TS, Mansur DB. Glioblastoma in children: a single-institution experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Jul 15.

Leonard JC, Kuppermann N, Olsen C, Babcock-Cimpello L, Brown K, Mahajan P, Adelgais KM, Anders J, Borgialli D, Donoghue A, Hoyle JD Jr, Kim E, Leonard JR, Lillis KA, Nigrovic LE, Powell EC, Rebella G, Reeves SD, Rogers AJ, Stankovic C, Teshome G, Jaffe DM; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Factors associated with cervical spine injury in children after blunt trauma. Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Aug.

Chicoine MR, Lim CC, Evans JA, Singla A, Zipfel GJ, Rich KM, Dowling JL, Leonard JR, Smyth MD, Santiago P, Leuthardt EC, Limbrick DD, Dacey RG. Implementation and preliminary clinical experience with the use of ceiling mounted mobile high field intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging between two operating rooms. Acta Neurochir Suppl. 2011.

For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. Jeffrey R. Leonard
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