Steven R Leuthner, MD

• Milwaukee Campus-Children's Wisconsin
  8915 W. Connell Court
  Milwaukee, WI 53226
  Office Phone: (414) 266-6820
  

Services

• Neonatology
• Fetal concerns

Dr. Steven Leuthner works with the Neonatology Division, Children's Wisconsin Ethics Committee, and is the Program Director of the Palliative Care Team. He specializes in qualitative and mixed methods research in the areas of perinatal and neonatal palliative care and ethics. He is a mentor to others in the group on their projects and is also involved in the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) fetal and palliative care work groups. He has written on ethical topics such as withdrawing and withholding life sustaining medical therapies in the NICU, the role of palliative care in a fetal center, and advances in neonatal palliative care. He is the current Chair of the AAP Section on Bioethics and serves in State appointed positions for Newborn Screening Advisory Committee and the Medical Examining board. He also works with Dr. Erin Rholl to provide neonatology fellow education on ethics and palliative care.

Certifications

• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Areas of Interest

• Pediatrics
• Neonatology
• Anencephaly
• Blood Type Incompatibility
• Chronic lung disease
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
• Congenital pulmonary airway malformation
• Gastroschisis
• Hydrops fetalis erythroblastosis fetalis
• Omphalocele

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Education

• 1989, University of Chicago (Pritzker Sch of Med, IL), MD

Residencies

• 1992, Children's Memorial Hospital - Pediatrics
• 1992, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) - Pediatrics

Fellowships

• 1995, McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University (Illinois) - Neonatology
• 1995, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) - Neonatology

Awards

Publications