James D. Leo, M.D., F.C.C.P.
2840 Long Beach Blvd., Suite 408
Long Beach, CA 90806
Phone: 562-988-8661
Fax: 562-426-2273
Email: jleomd@alum.mit.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Name: James Dana Leo, M.D., F.C.C.P.

Employer: James D. Leo, M.D., Inc.
Tax ID # 33-0950658

Business Address:

2840 Long Beach Blvd. Suite 408, Long Beach, CA 90806
Phone: (562) 988-8661, Facsimile: (562) 426-7787
e-mail: jleo@memorialcare.org

Date Of Birth: May 4, 1956

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA

Current Position:

  • Private Practice
    • Internal Medicine and Critical Care
  • Associate Chief Medical Officer
    • Medical Director of Clinical Quality
    • Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, 2801 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90806
  • Medical Director, APACHE III Decision Support System
  • Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Units
  • Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

Education:

  • B.S. (Biology): 1977
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
  • M.D.: 1981
    University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143
  • Internship (Internal Medicine): 1981-82
    Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, Los Angeles, CA 90073
  • Residency (Emergency Medicine) 1982-84
    UCLA Center for Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90024
  • Residency (Internal Medicine) 1985-87
    Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90033

Board Certification:

  • Subspecialty Board in Critical Care Medicine
    American Board of Internal Medicine
    February 1992, June 2001
  • American Board of Internal Medicine
    January 1988
  • American Board of Emergency Medicine
    March 1986, December 1996

Honors and Awards:

  • Regent's Scholar
    University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine 1977
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
    University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine 1981

Medical Licensure:

  • 1982: California #G49243
    Renewed 1984, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 2000, 2002, 2004
  • 1982: Drug Enforcement Administration #AL1915581
    Renewed 1984, 85, 86, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 2002, 2005

Professional Society Membership:

  • Member, American Medical Association
  • Member, Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians

Current Teaching Position:

  • Attending Physician
    Intensive Care Unit Teaching Service
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, 2801 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90801
    (Supervision of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellows and Internal Medicine Residents)

Current Staff Positions:

  • Attending Physician (Active Staff)
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, CA 90801
  • Attending Physician (Courtesy Staff)
    Los Alamitos Medical Center, Los Alamitos, CA 90720

Current Committee Positions Held at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center:

  • Chairman, Council for Performance Improvement
  • Chairman, Careline Directors Committee
  • Chairman, Intensivist Committee
  • Chairman, Compassionate Care Program Development Task Force
  • Chairman, Rapid Response Team Development Task Force
  • Member, Medical Executive Committee
  • Member, Quality Review Committee
  • Member, Critical Care CareLine Committee
  • Member, Epidemiology Committee
  • Member, Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee
  • Member, Safety Committee
  • Member, Graduate Medical Education Committee
  • Member, Trauma Quality Improvement Committee

Previous Positions Held:

  • Director, Critical Care Care-Line
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, 2801 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90801
    September 1995 - April 1997
  • Principal, Hospitalists of Long Beach, Inc.
    Hospitalists for Long Beach Memorial IPA
    January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1998

Previous Staff Positions:

  • Director, Emergency Department
    Burbank Community Hospital, Burbank, CA 91501
    July 1984-August 1985
  • Emergency Physician
    Mission Valley Medical Center, Lake Elsinore, CA 92330
    1984-1985
  • Emergency Physician
    Panorama Community Hospital, Panorama City, CA 91402
    1984-1985
  • Emergency Physician
    Canoga Park Community Hospital, Canoga Park, CA
    1984-1985

Pre-Doctoral Research:

  • Research Assistant in Evaluation of Pulmonary
    Interstitial Deposition of Immune Complex in an Animal Model of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
  • UCLA Center for Health Sciences
    June - September 1974, June - September 1975

Publications:

  • Chapters in Textbooks:
    • Leo, J.D., and Simon, R.R: "Upper Airway Obstruction", in Comprehensive Management of Respiratory Emergencies. B.E. Brenner, ed.;
      Aspen Publications, Maryland, 1985.

Invited Lectures:

  • "Head and Spinal Trauma"
    UCLA EMT-1 Training Course, Los Angeles, October 1982.
  • "Metabolic Disorders: Diabetes Mellitus"
    UCLA MedStar Flight Nurses Training Course, Los Angeles, March 1983.
  • "Emergency Thoracotomy in Penetrating Cardiac Trauma"
    UCLA Emergency Medicine-Trauma Surgery Combined Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Los Angeles, November, 1983.
  • "Facial and Cervical Trauma"
    UCLA Emergency Medicine Residents Lecture, Los Angeles, February, 1984.
  • "Toxic Psychoses"
    Burbank Community Hospital Medical Staff Weekly CME Conference, Burbank, CA 1984.
  • "Upper Airway Obstruction"
    UCLA Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds, Los Angeles, May 1985.
  • "Antihistamine Overdose"
    LAC-USC Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference, July 1986.
  • "Clinicopathologic Conference: An Unusual Colonic Tumor"
    Clinicopathologic Conference Long Beach Community Hospital, Long Beach, April 1987.
  • "The Physiology of Swallowing and Dysphagia"
    International Symposium on Swallowing Disorders
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, December, 1988.
  • "Sepsis and Septic Shock"
    Combined Critical Care/Trauma Service Grand Rounds
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, December 1991.
  • "Diagnosis and Management of Shock States"
    Intensive Care Unit Housestaff Lecture
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995.
  • "APACHE III Severity Scoring System"
    Department of Medicine Quarterly Meeting
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, August 1996.
  • "APACHE III Severity Scoring System: An Update"
    Quarterly Medical Staff Meeting
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, March 1998.
  • "Ventilator Management of the Spinal Cord Injured Patient"
    UC Irvine - Long Beach VA Medical Center Combined Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Resident Conference
    Long Beach VA Medical Center, November 2000
  • "Critical Care Management of the Trauma Patient"
    Fundamentals of Critical Care Support Lecture
    UC Irvine/Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Internal Medicine Residents Lecture, July 26, 2002
  • "Medical Ethics in the Intensive Care Unit"
    Fundamentals of Critical Care Support Lecture
    UC Irvine/Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Internal Medicine Residents Lecture, July 26, 2002
  • "Ventilator Management of the Spinal Cord Injured Patient"
    UC Irvine - Long Beach VA Medical Center Combined Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Resident Conference
    Long Beach VA Medical Center, November 2003
  • "Surviving Sepsis Campaign": Acute Management of Septic Shock Fundamentals of Critical Care Support Lecture
    UC Irvine/Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
    Internal Medicine Residents Lecture, September 25, 2004
  • "Facilitating Physician Participation in Quality Initiatives"
    Presented at "Medical Staff and Hospital Collaboration in Perfomance Measurement and Quality Care" Conference
    California Medical Association/Institute for Medical Quality
    Newport Beach, California, May 21, 2005
  • "Community-Acquired Pneumonia"
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, July 28, 2005
  • "Current Approaches to Septic Shock"
    UC Irvine/Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Internal Medicine Housestaff Noon Conference, August 15, 2005
  • "Quality Measures in Cardiac Care"
    Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, November 10, 2005

Other Professional Activities:

  • Member, Critical Care Transformation Council
    Charles M. Watts, M.D., Chairman
    November 2003 -
 
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