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Dr. Leventhal is a Transplant Hepatologist who has obtained additional training as a Critical Care physician. In addition to maintaining hepatology and liver transplant clinics, he also performs endoscopy, inpatient hepatology consultative services, and attends in the medical lCU at the University of Minnesota hospital. He is the Medical Director of the MHealth/Fairview Donor Care Unit in partnership with LifeSource. In this role he has created and maintained a dedicated critical care unit that focuses on optimizing medical care to organ donors, with the goal of maximizing the quality and number of organs that are used for life-saving transplantation.
He is active in education of medical trainees: providing lectures to medical students, residents, gastroenterology and transplant hepatology fellows as well as critical care felllows while taking on leadership roles within the GI fellowship.
His research has focused on: acute liver failure, generic drug costs, outcomes in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis, the role of confl icts of interest in medical care, and outcomes of organ donors. He also participates in industry-sponsored device trials, including the management of ascites and liver support for those with acute liver failure.
Cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, auto-immune liver disease, drug-induced liver injury, liver transplantation, liver cancer, hospitalized patients with liver disease, liver disease in persons with HIV/AIDS