Professional Interests

Dr. Leung graduated from SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn in 2005 and completed her internal medicine residency and critical-care medicine fellowship training at Monfefiore Medical Center. In 2009, house staff selected her as Fellow of the Year. In 2010, she was recruited to join the faculty and was supported by her division for the AECOM master’s program in clinical research methods because of her interest in comparative effectiveness, cost, and outcome research. She further pursued her Executive MHA at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, graduated in 2014.

Dr. Leung became the associate director of critical care medicine for clinical operations and the medical director of the critical care physician assistant program in 2016. Her focus was to employ Lean Six Sigma methodology for process improvement, to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment strategies, to study health-care utilization and costs, and to evaluate physician compensation and productivity.

In 2019, Dr. Leung became the medical director for strategic initiatives for the medical center, managing the Triple Aim program and other operational projects. Seeing the bigger picture in health care and within the health system, she realized that relentless focus on value creation and delivery is the prerequisite of achieving the quadruple aim of health care.

Dr. Leung was born in Hong Kong and moved to Bronx, New York, when she was 19.

Dr. Leung is board certified in:

• Internal Medicine
  
• Critical Care Medicine
  
• Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine
• Neurocritical Care Medicine 
  

Research Interest: 

1. Health Policy and Management: Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Decision Making
2. Value Management -- Quadruple Aim
3. Time Driven Activity Based Costing

Selected Publications

1. Bodian D, Leung S, Chiu H and Govind S.  Cytokines in Drosophila hematopoiesis and cellular immunity.  Prog Mol Subcell Biol. 2004;34:27-46.

2. Leung S, Storck K and LeFrancois D.  Visual Vignette: Subglottic Laryngeal Paraganglioma Presenting with Acute Airway Obstruction.  Endocr Pract. 2009 Mar-Apr;15(2):175.

3. Leung S, Malhotra AD and LeFrancois D.  Not Just Another Case of Small Bowel Obstruction.  Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009 Aug;7(8):A26.

4. Leung S, Metzger BS and Currie BP.  Incidence of Clostridium difficile Infection in Acute Leukemia and Lymphoma Patients after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2010 Mar;31(3):313-5

5. Leung S, Malhotra AD and Eisen LA.  Venous Access Challenge on a Patient with Cerebral Palsy and Severe Kyphoscoliosis.  J Vasc Access. 2010 Jan-Mar;11(1):66-8.

6. Eisen LA, Leung S, Gallagher AM and Kvetan V.  Barriers to Ultrasonography Training in Critical Care Medicine Fellowships: A Survey of Program Directors.  Crit Care Med. 2010 Oct;38(10):1978-83.

7. Leung S, LeFrancois D and Eisen LA.  Polypharmacy in the Elderly: Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis Precipitated by Acute Renal Failure Induced by Zoledronic Acid.  Clinical Geriatrics 2011:19(2):50-52

8. Leung S.  Is it Right to Measure the Productivity of Senior Clinician/Educators by Relative Value Units (RVUs)?  J Grad Med Educ. 2011 March; 3(1): 9

9. Leung S, Pokharel R and Gong MN.  Statins and Outcomes in Patients with Bloodstream Infection: A Propensity-Score Analysis.  Crit Care Med. 2012 Apr;40(4):1064-71 as featured article

10. LeFrancois D and Leung S.  Advancing into the Community.  Am J Med. 2012 Jul;125(7):657-6

11. Yu S, Leung S, Heo M, Soto GJ, Shah RT Gunda S and Gong MN.  Comparison of Risk Prediction Scoring Systems for Non-ICU Hospitalized Patients.  Crit Care. 2014 Jun 26;18(3):R132.

12. Leung S, Gregg SR, Coopersmith CM, Layon AJ, Oropello J, Brown DR, Pastores SM, Kvetan V. Critical Care Organizations: Business of Critical Care and Value/Performance Building. Crit Care Med. 2018 Jan;46(1):1-11 as featured article

13. Jorde UP, Shah AM, Sims DB, Madan S, Siddiqi N, Luke A, Saeed O, Patel SR, Murthy S, Shin J, Oveido J, Watts S, Jakobleff W, Forest S, Vukelic S, Belov D, Puius Y, Minamoto G, Muggia V, Carlese A, Leung S, Rahmanian M, Leff J and Goldstein D.  Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Survival Improves with Multidisciplinary Approach.  Ann Thorac Surg. 2019 Aug;108(2): 508-516

14. Sadikot C, Leung S, Vassilakis A and LeFrancois D. Addressing Resident Retention of Musculoskeletal Skills, Knowledge, and Confidence: a Randomized Controlled Study of a Clinic Intervention.  J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Jan 26.  Online ahead of print.

15. Leung S, Pastores SM, Oropello JM, Lilly CM, Galvagno SM, Badjatia N, Jacobi J, Herr DL and Oliveira JD.  Regionalization of Critical Care in the United States: Current State and Proposed Framework.  Manuscript was accepted in Critical Care Medicine on April 16^th, 2021.

B.  Books, Chapters in Books, and Review Articles:

1. Leung S.  Surgical Site Infections. 5-minute Critical Care Consult 2011.

2. Shiloh AL, Savel RH, Leung S, Carlese A and Kvetan V.  Mass Critical Care.  Textbook of Critical Care, 6^th Edition, 2011

3. Leung S.  Controversies: Can Intensivist Performance Be Measured? Critical Care Medicine, McGraw-Hill, 2016

4. Carlese A and Leung S.  Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Critical Care Medicine, McGraw-Hill, 2016

Letters to the Editor:

1. LeFrancois D and Leung S.  Letter to the Editor: Opioids and Clostridium Difficile Infection.  Am J Med. 2013 Apr;126(4): e15

2. LeFrancois D and Leung S.  Letter to the Editor: Bedside Rounding Strategies Used by Bedside Teachers. J Gen Intern Med. 2013, Sep; 28(9):1130.

C.   Community Education: Patient advice

Kaplan R and Leung S. Surviving Critical Illness: What Is Post-ICU Syndrome (PICS) And How Does It Affect Patients and Families?  U.S News and World Report patient advice blog on July 25^th, 2017