Steven R. Leuthner, MD

Titles
Program director, Fetal Concerns, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Neonatology

Research interests
Bioethics, fetal concerns/prematurity diseases

Study interests
Bioethics, end-of-life care, fetal anomalies, neonatal limits of viability.

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, Chicago, 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.

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. 1994; 15:747-759.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
MS 214
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 266-6706
Fax: (414) 266-6979
E-mail: Leuthner@mcw.edu