Nicholas J. Leeper, MD

Address

• Falk CVRC Building
  300 Pasteur Drive
  Stanford, CA 94305
  (650) 723-6141
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Undergraduate School:

• University of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  BA Chemistry with Honors, 1999

Medical School:

• University of Chicago
  Pritzker School of Medicine
  Chicago, IL
  MD with Honors, 2003

Residency:

• Internal Medicine
  University of California (UCSF)
  San Francisco, CA
  2005

Fellowship:

• Research in Cardiology
  Stanford University
  Clinical Investigator Pathway
  Stanford, CA
  present

Board Certified

• Internal Medicine, 2006

Clinical/Research Interests:

• Study of the apelin-APJ signaling pathway in cardiomyopathy and vascular disease states
• Molecular and cellular vascular biology
• Therapeutic angiogenesis
• Clinical heart failure and cardiomyopathy therapeutics

Selected Publications:

• Leeper NJ, Ardehali R, deGoma EM, Heidenreich PA.  Statin use in patients with extremely low low-density lipoprotein levels is associated with improved survival.
  Circulation. 2007 Aug 7;116(6):613-8.
• Leeper NJ, Dewey FE, Ashley EA, Sandri M, Tan SY, Hadley D, Myers J, Froelicher V. Prognostic value of heart rate increase at onset of exercise testing.
  Circulation. 2007 Jan 30;115(4):468-74.
• Leeper NJ, Wener LS, Dhaliwal G, Saint S, Wachter RM. Clinical problem-solving. One surprise after another.
  N Engl J Med. 2005 Apr 7;352(14):1474-9.