Steven R. Leuthner, MD

Neonatology

Title(s): Associate professor, Pediatrics and Bioethics, Health Policy Institute.

Education: Medical degree, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1989; residency, Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago, 1992; Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship, Northwestern University Medical School 1995; Masters of Art in Health Care Ethics, Loyola University of Chicago, 1996.

Honors: Department of Pediatrics top ten for resident teaching, 2001; recognized by American Academy of Family Physicians for participation as an Active Teacher in Family Medicine, 2001; Department of Pediatrics Clinical Physicians Award-Program Development-Fetal Concerns Program, 2002.

Research interests: Bioethics, neonatal limits of viability, end-of-life care and fetal anomalies.

Representative publications:

• Leuthner SR. Decisions Regarding Resuscitation of the Extremely Premature Infant and Models of Best Interest. Journal of Perinatology, 2001; 21:106.
• Pierucci RL, Kirby RS, Leuthner SR. End-of-Life Care for Neonates and Infants: The Experience and Effects of a Palliative Care Consultation Service. Pediatrics 2001;108: 653-60.
• Leuthner SR, Bolger M, Frommelt M, Nelson RM. The Impact of Abnormal Fetal Echocardiography on Expectant Parents' Experience of Pregnancy: A Pilot Study. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology 2003; 24(2): 121-129.
• Carter BS, Leuthner SR. The Ethics of Withholding/Withdrawing Nutrition in the Newborn. Seminars in Perinatology 2003; 27(6): 480-487.
• Leuthner SR, Kirby RS. Place of Infant Death and Hospice/Home Health Care Agency Utilization in the State of Wisconsin. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2004, 7(2): 269-277.
• Leuthner SR. Palliative Care of the Infant with Lethal Anomalies. Pediatric Clinics of North America 2994; 15:747-759.

Contact information: 8701 Watertown Plank Road, MS 214, Milwaukee, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 266-6706. Fax: (414) 266-6979. E-mail: Leuthner@mcw.edu.