Patrick Joseph Leavey, MD
Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Interim Division Director at Children's Health
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Patrick Leavey, M.D., is the associate medical director for clinical affairs for the Pauline Allen Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders and the director of the Musculoskeletal Tumors Program at Children’s Health℠. He is also a Professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Leavey graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1986 and joined the pediatric faculty at UT Southwestern in 1998. During his years of training, Dr. Leavey became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Diplomate of Child Health from the National University of Ireland. He also received a Doctorate of Medicine degree from the National University of Ireland in 2000.
Dr. Leavey’s experience as a physician has spanned three continents; he has practiced medicine in Ireland, Australia and two states in the U.S. After working all over the world, he believes the collaborative opportunities for physicians are unsurpassed in Dallas, with the most advanced care practices for pediatric cancer happening as a result of UT Southwestern’s collaboration with Children’s Health.
Dr. Leavey specializes in caring for children with sarcoma and bone tumors. His research interests mirror his clinical expertise with work on multiple studies funded by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, including a statewide sarcoma biology study and the development of computational systems in osteosarcoma. Dr. Leavey is also the chair of the international AEWS1031 study for newly diagnosed patients with non-metastatic Ewing sarcoma at the Children’s Oncology Group.
Dr. Leavey has been listed among the best pediatric specialists in Dallas for many years. He is the vice president of the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the secretary-treasurer of the Council of Pediatric Subspecialties.
As a father of four children, Dr. Leavey spent most of his free time with his children when they were younger. Heading into empty-nesting, Dr. Leavey now enjoys exercise, going for walks and reading when he isn’t working to save children’s lives.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons-Ireland (1986)
- Internship
- Beaumont Hospital (1987), General Surgery
- Residency
- Children's Hospital of Denver (1998), Pediatrics
St. Vincents Hospital - Dublin Ireland (1989), Internal Medicine - Fellowship
- University of Colorado School of Medicine - Denver (1996), Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology
Conditions
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Development of advances in therapy for children with sarcoma
- Development of novel biomarkers for patients with bone and soft tissue sarcoma using advanced imaging, digital histology and automated learning tools
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Publications
Publications
- An international working group consensus report for the prioritization of molecular biomarkers for Ewing sarcoma. Shulman DS, Whittle SB, Surdez D, Bailey KM, de Álava E, Yustein JT, Shlien A, Hayashi M, Bishop AJR, Crompton BD, DuBois SG, Shukla N, Leavey PJ, Lessnick SL, Kovar H, Delattre O, Grünewald TGP, Antonescu CR, Roberts RD, Toretsky JA, Tirode F, Gorlick R, Janeway KA, Reed D, Lawlor ER, Grohar PJ, NPJ Precis Oncol 2022 Sep 6 1 65
- Enhancing access to and diversity in cancer clinical trials through a financial reimbursement program: Protocol to evaluate a novel program. Gerber DE, Tiro JA, McNeill LH, Williams EL, Zhu H, Lee SJC, Leavey PJ, Sadeghi N, Kapinos KA, Dornsife DL, Nguyen V, Wileyto EP, Guerra CE, Contemp Clin Trials 2022 Sep 121 106922
- Deep Learning of Rhabdomyosarcoma Pathology Images for Classification and Survival Outcome Prediction. Zhang X, Wang S, Rudzinski ER, Agarwal S, Rong R, Barkauskas DA, Daescu O, Cline LF, Venkatramani R, Xie Y, Xiao G, Leavey P, Am J Pathol 2022 Apr
- Reply to J.-G. Wang et al. Leavey PJ, Krailo MD, DuBois SG, Reed DR, Janeway KA, Mascarenhas L, J Clin Oncol 2022 Mar JCO2102922
- Correlation of histopathology and multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging in childhood osteosarcoma: Predicting tumor response to chemotherapy. Teo KY, Daescu O, Cederberg K, Sengupta A, Leavey PJ, PLoS One 2022 17 2 e0259564
- Phase III Trial Adding Vincristine-Topotecan-Cyclophosphamide to the Initial Treatment of Patients With Nonmetastatic Ewing Sarcoma: A Children's Oncology Group Report. Leavey PJ, Laack NN, Krailo MD, Buxton A, Randall RL, DuBois SG, Reed DR, Grier HE, Hawkins DS, Pawel B, Nadel H, Womer RB, Letson GD, Bernstein M, Brown K, Maciej A, Chuba P, Ahmed AA, Indelicato DJ, Wang D, Marina N, Gorlick R, Janeway KA, Mascarenhas L, J Clin Oncol 2021 Oct JCO2100358
- Isotope tracing reveals glycolysis and oxidative metabolism in childhood tumors of multiple histologies. Johnston K, Pachnis P, Tasdogan A, Faubert B, Zacharias LG, Vu HS, Rodgers-Augustyniak L, Johnson A, Huang F, Ricciardo S, Zhao Z, Mathews TP, Watt T, Leavey P, DeBerardinis RJ, Med (N Y) 2021 04 2 4 395-410
- Genomic and Immunologic Characterization of INI1-Deficient Pediatric Cancers. Forrest SJ, Al-Ibraheemi A, Doan D, Ward A, Clinton CM, Putra J, Pinches RS, Kadoch C, Chi SN, DuBois SG, Leavey PJ, LeBoeuf NR, Mullen E, Collins N, Church AJ, Janeway KA, Clin. Cancer Res. 2020 Jun 26 12 2882-2890
Books
- Histopathological Diagnosis for Viable and Non-viable Tumor Prediction for Osteosarcoma Using Convolutional Neural Network. In Bioinformatics Research and Verlag. Mishra R, Daescu O, Leavey P, Rakheja D, Sengupta A. (2017). Springer
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Professional Activities
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (2012)
- American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (2004)
- Children's Oncology Group (2002)
- Connective Tissue Oncology Society
- Dallas County Medical Society and Texas Medical Association
- Society for Pediatric Research (2006)
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Awards and Honors
- UT Southwestern Annual Leaders in Clinical Excellence, Program Development Award (nominee) (2021-2022)
- DFWHC Foundation, Dallas Physician of the Year (nominee) - Sponsored by Children's Health, Children's Medical Center Dallas (2020)
- Physician of the Year - Children's Health, Children's Medical Center Dallas (2020)
- Best Pediatric Specialists/Doctors in Dallas - D Magazine (2010-2023)
- Faculty Teaching Award - UT Southwestern and Children's Medical Center (2009)
- Medical Achievement Award - Little Mo Award - awarded by Wipe out Kids Cancer (2008)
- Elected to the Society for Pediatric Research (2006)
- Achievement Award - Gift of Giving Back Award; first such award given by the Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer (2005)
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