Dr. Peter Joseph Leary MD MS
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
600 N Wolfe St Johns Hopkins Hospit Baltimore MD, 21205About
Dr. Peter Leary practices Pulmonology in Baltimore, MD. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Leary manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
UW - Dept. of Epidemiology
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease- 2012
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Delayed pneumothorax after bronchoscopy in a lung transplant patient.
- Prognostic value of the pre-transplant diastolic pulmonary artery pressure-to-pulmonary capillary wedge pressure gradient in cardiac transplant recipients with pulmonary hypertension.
- Pericardial Fat and Right Ventricular Morphology: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis- Right Ventricle Study (MESA-RV).
- Causality, Correlation, and Cardiac Disease: Does Smoking Cause Cardiac Hypertrophy and Diastolic Dysfunction?
- Pulmonary Arterial Compliance Improves Rapidly After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation.
- A Tale of Two Hearts: Patients with Decompensated Right Heart Failure in the
Fellowships
- University of Washington, Dept of Radiation Oncology
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