Paul A. Leonard, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Current Positions
- Division of Neuroanesthesia
Education
- BA in Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
- MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
- PhD in Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
- Transitional Internship, Tucson Hospitals Medical Education Program, Tucson, Arizona
- Resident in Anesthesia, University of Iowa Health Care, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Research Interests
- Use of Simulation in Performance Assessment
- Role of Emotion in Training Clinical Cognition
- Use of Simulation in Health Care Team Training
Selected Publications
- Leonard, P. A. & Todd, M. M. (2017). Quantitative neuromuscular blockade monitoring: two pictures of unexpected rocuronium effect: a case report. A A Case Rep 9 (7) 190-192. DOI: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000000568. PMID: 28542054.
- Leonard, P. A. & Willemsen-Dunlap, A. M. (2012). Simulation training at a large community hospital. Proc Obstet Gynecol 2 (3) 13.
- Willemsen-Dunlap, A., Leonard, P. A. & Cutkomp, J. L. (2012). Thyroid storm precipitated by stress in an undiagnosed hyperthyroid patient: a simulated medical crisis. Simul Healthc 7 (1) 48-53. DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e31821ed879. PMID: 21785389.
- Todd, M. M., Hindman, B. J., Clarke, W. R., Torner, J. C., Weeks, J. B., Bayman, E. O., Shi, Q. & Spofford, C. M. (2009). Perioperative fever and outcome in surgical patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurgery 64 (5) 897-908; discussion 908. DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000341903.11527.2F. PMID: 19404150.
- Pasternak, J. J., McGregor, D. G., Lanier, W. L., Schroeder, D. R., Rusy, D. A., Hindman, B. J., Clarke, W., Torner, J. & Todd, M. M. (2009). Effect of nitrous oxide use on long-term neurologic and neuropsychological outcome in patients who received temporary proximal artery occlusion during cerebral aneurysm clipping surgery. Anesthesiology 110 (3) 563-573. DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318197ff81. PMID: 19212259. PMCID: PMC2735401.
- Leonard, P. A., Arunkumar, R. & Brennan, T. J. (2004). Bradykinin antagonists have no analgesic effect on incisional pain. Anesth Analg 99 (4) 1166-1172, table of contents. DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000130348.85587.BE. PMID: 15385370.
- Leonard, P. A., Whitter, T. J. & Sokoll, M. J. (1998). Monitoring Neuromuscular Blockade. In Morgan, G. E., Tinker, J. H. & Longnecker, D. E. (Eds.) Principles and Practice of Anesthesiology. (2nd Edition), pp. 907-922. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby.
- Jensen, N. F., Todd, M. M., Kramer, D. J., Leonard, P. A. & Warner, D. S. (1992). A comparison of the vasodilating effects of halothane and isoflurane on the isolated rabbit basilar artery with and without intact endothelium. Anesthesiology 76 (4) 624-634. PMID: 1550288.
- Ma, S. X., Long, J. P., Flynn, J. R., Leonard, P. A. & Cannon, J. G. (1991). Dopaminergic structure-activity relationships of 2-aminoindans and cardiovascular action and dopaminergic activity of 4-hydroxy, 5-methyl, 2-di-n-propylaminoindan (RD-211). J Pharmacol Exp Ther 256 (2) 751-756. PMID: 1671601.
- Cannon, J. G., True, C. D., Long, J. P., Bhatnagar, R. K., Leonard, P. A. & Flynn, J. R. (1989). Introduction of a putative dopaminergic prodrug moiety into a 6,7-substitution pattern characteristic of certain 2-aminotetralin dopaminergic agonists. J Med Chem 32 (9) 2210-2214. PMID: 2570153.