Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Board Certification, Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine 2019 - 2028
  • Fellow, Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University 2017 - 2019
  • VUMC Internal Chief Resident, Vumc, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine 2016 - 2017
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Vumc, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine 2013 - 2016
  • M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Medical School 2013
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  Medical Licensure

  • 2017-01147. North Carolina. 2017
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Rheumatology and Immunology, Medicine 2019 - 2020
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  Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke

  • Associate Program Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Medical education
  • Quality Improvement
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • RheumMadness: An Online Community of Inquiry for Rheumatology Trainees awarded by Rheumatology Research Foundation 2020 - 2023
  • CD40L antagonism in RA- ITN FY22ITN566 awarded by Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason 2022 - 2023
  • Pfizer QI Telehealth in Rheumatology awarded by Pfizer, Inc. 2020 - 2022
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  External Relationships

  • Pfizer Inc.
  • Rheumatology Research Foundation
  • Sanofi
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Bolster, Marcy B., Jason Kolfenbach, Alexandra Poeschla, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, Faye Hant, Rumey Ishizawar, Beth Jonas, et al. “Incorporating Telemedicine in Rheumatology Fellowship Training Programs: Needs Assessment, Curricular Intervention, and Evaluation.” Arthritis Care & Research, May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.25165.
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    • Leverenz, David L., Akrithi U. Garren, Guy Katz, Didem Saygin, Allen Witt, Robert Harper, Matthew A. Sparks, and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber. “RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology.” Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), February 27, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.25108.
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    • Milne, Megan, Catherine Sims, D Ryan Anderson, Andrew Johannemann, David Leverenz, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, and Kaveh Ardalan. “A Rare Manifestation of a Rare Disease: The Importance of Thinking Outside the Box in a Patient With Complex Dermatomyositis.” Arthritis Care & Research 74, no. 12 (December 2022): 1943–49. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24905.
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    • Smith, Isaac D., Theresa M. Coles, Catherine Howe, Robert Overton, Nicoleta Economou-Zavlanos, Mary J. Solomon, Rong Zhao, et al. “Telehealth Made EASY: Understanding Provider Perceptions of Telehealth Appropriateness in Outpatient Rheumatology Encounters.” Acr Open Rheumatol 4, no. 10 (October 2022): 845–52. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr2.11470.
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    • Maheswaranathan, Mithu, Philip Chu, Andrew Johannemann, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, Megan Clowse, and David L. Leverenz. “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Telemedicine Implementation on Practice Patterns and Electronic Health Record Utilization in an Academic Rheumatology Practice.” J Clin Rheumatol 28, no. 2 (March 1, 2022): e612–15. https://doi.org/10.1097/RHU.0000000000001751.
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    • Leverenz, David L., Amanda M. Eudy, and Lisa G. Criscione-Schreiber. “What do internal medicine residents know about rheumatology? A needs assessment for curriculum design.” Clin Rheumatol 40, no. 5 (May 2021): 2021–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-020-05506-5.
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    • Qian, Edward T., David L. Leverenz, John A. McPherson, and Susan F. Kroop. “An Internal Medicine Residency Podcast: Impact on the Educational Experience and Care Practices of Medical Residents.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 36, no. 5 (May 2021): 1457–59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05939-3.
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    • Udupa, Akrithi, David Leverenz, Stephen J. Balevic, Rebecca E. Sadun, Teresa K. Tarrant, and Jennifer L. Rogers. “Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: a Rheumatologist's Take on the Lessons Learned.” Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 21, no. 1 (January 21, 2021): 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11882-020-00983-9.
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    • Chakravarthy, Rohini, Kathryn Goggins, David Leverenz, Silas P. Trumbo, Sunil Kripalani, and Heather M. Limper. “Lessons Learned from Efforts to Reduce Overuse of Cardiac Telemetry Monitoring.” Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 46, no. 8 (August 2020): 464–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2020.05.001.
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    • Leverenz, David L., and Lisa G. Criscione-Schreiber. “A Fuzzy Cause of Hip Pain.” The American Journal of Medicine 133, no. 5 (May 2020): 580–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.10.026.
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    • Leverenz, David L., and Teresa K. Tarrant. “Is the HScore useful in COVID-19?” Lancet (London, England) 395, no. 10236 (May 2020): e83. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31057-6.
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    • Leverenz, David, and William St. Clair. “Recent advances in the search for a targeted immunomodulatory therapy for primary Sjögren’s syndrome,” August 29, 2019. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.19842.1.
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    • Kozak, Patrick M., Silas P. Trumbo, Bradley W. Christensen, David L. Leverenz, Matthew S. Shotwell, and Adam J. Kingeter. “Addition of price transparency to an education and feedback intervention reduces utilization of inpatient echocardiography by resident physicians.” Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 35, no. 7 (July 2019): 1259–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-019-01572-2.
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    • Leverenz, David L., Amanda M. Eudy, Malithi Jayasundara, Tayseer Haroun, Gary McDaniel, W. Benjamin Nowell, Jeffrey R. Curtis, et al. “Contraception methods used by women with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.” Clin Rheumatol 38, no. 4 (April 2019): 1207–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-018-04420-1.
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    • Trumbo, Silas P., Wade T. Iams, Heather M. Limper, Kathryn Goggins, Jayme Gibson, Lauren Oliver, David L. Leverenz, Lauren R. Samuels, Donald W. Brady, and Sunil Kripalani. “Deimplementation of Routine Chest X-rays in Adult Intensive Care Units.” Journal of Hospital Medicine 14, no. 2 (February 2019): 83–89. https://doi.org/10.12788/jhm.3129.
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    • Leverenz, David L., and E William St Clair. “Recent advances in the search for a targeted immunomodulatory therapy for primary Sjögren's syndrome.” F1000research 8 (January 2019). https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.19842.1.
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    • Leverenz, David L., Christopher Henderson, and Ankoor Shah. “Atypical Cutaneous Presentations of Sarcoidosis: Two Case Reports and Review of the Literature.” Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 18, no. 8 (June 2018): 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11882-018-0794-6.
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    • Iams, Wade, Josh Heck, Meghan Kapp, David Leverenz, Michael Vella, Eszter Szentirmai, Irene Valerio-Navarrete, et al. “A Multidisciplinary Housestaff-Led Initiative to Safely Reduce Daily Laboratory Testing.” Acad Med 91, no. 6 (June 2016): 813–20. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000001149.
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    • Leverenz, David, Oana Zaha, Leslie J. Crofford, and Cecilia P. Chung. “Causes of creatine kinase levels greater than 1000 IU/L in patients referred to rheumatology.” Clin Rheumatol 35, no. 6 (June 2016): 1541–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-016-3242-9.
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    • Leverenz, David, Wade Iams, Josh Heck, and Donald Brady. “Who is going to make the wise choice?” J Hosp Med 10, no. 8 (August 2015): 544–46. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.2377.
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