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Lorriana Leard, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Department of Medicine
Associate Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Contact Information

Academic Office
505 Parnassus Avenue, Moffitt 1336B, Box 0111
San Francisco, California 94143
Phone: 415-476-8287
Fax: 415-476-5712
lorriana.leard@ucsf.edu
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Education

Stanford University, 1993
UC San Diego School of Medicine, 1998

Residencies

  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 2001

Fellowships

  • Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, UCSF, 2005
  • Lung Transplantation, UCSF, 2006

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine -  Critical Care Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease

Program Affiliations

  • Thoracic Oncology Progam
  • Lung Transplant Program
  • Lung Cancer Screening Program

Clinical Expertise

Research Interests

  • Complications of Lung Transplantation
  • Lung Cancer Screening & Surveillance

Biography

Lorriana Leard, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and a board-certified pulmonologist who specializes in the care of patients with lung cancer and advanced lung diseases who are candidates for lung transplants. As an expert at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, she evaluates patients who have lung nodules, lung masses or symptoms suggestive of lung cancer, and she helped to establish the Lung Cancer Screening Program at UCSF. She also performs advanced bronchoscopic procedures, including Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS), tracheobronchial dilatation, tracheal and bronchial stent placement, transbronchial needle aspiration and biopsies, and gold fiducial placement in preparation for Cyberknife therapy.

Dr. Leard received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her M.D. from the University of California San Diego. After completing her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, she came to the University of California San Francisco for her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. She completed an additional subspecialty fellowship in Lung Transplantation at the University of California San Francisco and joined the faculty in 2006.

Her major academic interests include Lung Transplantation, Interventional Bronchoscopy, and Lung Cancer. She cares for patients on the Lung Transplant service, and at the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center at Mt. Zion.

UCSF Lung Cancer Screening Program offers same day low-dose CT scan and consultation with a pulmonologist. The process of being screened for lung cancer is explained in this video by Dr. Lorriana Leard

Awards & Honors

  Award  
  Confired By    
  Date    
  • Academy of Medical Educators
  • UCSF
  • 2011
  • Michael S. Stulbarg Outstanding Teaching Award
  • UCSF
  • 2007

    • Research Overview

    Dr. Leard's current research interests include (1) Assessment of the role of Donor Specific Antibodies in the development of Bronchiolitis obliterans, (2) Bronchoscopy Complications, and (3) Lung Cancer Screening.

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 52
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    1. Lew J, Casey M, Leard LE, Hays S, Otani IM. Perceptions Around Lung Transplant-Associated Hypogammaglobulinemia. J Clin Immunol. 2021 Aug 05. View in PubMed
    2. Leard LE, Holm AM, Valapour M, Glanville AR, Attawar S, Aversa M, Campos SV, Christon LM, Cypel M, Dellgren G, Hartwig MG, Kapnadak SG, Kolaitis NA, Kotloff RM, Patterson CM, Shlobin OA, Smith PJ, Solé A, Solomon M, Weill D, Wijsenbeek MS, Willemse BWM, Arcasoy SM, Ramos KJ. Consensus document for the selection of lung transplant candidates: An update from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2021 Jul 24. View in PubMed
    3. DeBolt CL, Gao Y, Sutter N, Soong A, Leard L, Jeffrey G, Kleinhenz ME, Calabrese D, Greenland J, Venado A, Hays SR, Shah R, Kukreja J, Trinh B, Kolaitis NA, Douglas V, Diamond JM, Smith P, Singer J. The association of post-operative delirium with patient-reported outcomes and mortality after lung transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2021 05; 35(5):e14275. View in PubMed
    4. Maheshwari JA, Kolaitis NA, Anderson MR, Benvenuto L, Gao Y, Katz PP, Greenland J, Wolters PJ, Covinsky K, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Calabrese DR, Venado A, Shah RJ, Leard LE, Trinh B, Huang CY, Glidden D, Kleinhenz ME, Golden JA, Sutter N, Tietje-Ulrich G, Criner RN, Arcasoy SM, Christie JD, Diamond J, Singer JP. Construct and Predictive Validity of Sarcopenia in Lung Transplant Candidates. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021 Sep; 18(9):1464-1474. View in PubMed
    5. Tsou S, Chen J, Brzezinski M, Hays S, Leard L, Singer JP, Trinh B, Kukreja J. Lung transplantation from swimming pool drowning victims: A case series. Am J Transplant. 2021 06; 21(6):2273-2278. View in PubMed
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