Kara-Grace Leventhal, MD

Professional Titles

• Clinical Lead, Division of Hospital Medicine
• Director of Hospital Medicine and DOM Moonlighting
• Director of Solid Oncology Co - Management Silver Service
• Assistant Medical Director, Office of Capacity Management

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Medicine

PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=kg+leventhal

Selected Publications

• Kara-Grace Leventhal, William Tuong, Beth N Peshkin, Yasmin Salehizadeh, Mary B Fishman, Susan Eggly, Kevin FitzGerald, Marc D Schwartz, Kristi D Graves, Is it really worth it to get tested?: primary care patients' impressions of predictive SNP testing for colon cancer. PMID: 22911325 PMCID: PMC3567438 DOI: 10.1007/s10897-012-9530-x J Genet Couns. 2013 Feb;22(1):138-51. doi: 10.1007/s10897-012-9530-x. Epub 2012 Aug 22.

• Kristi D Graves, Kara-Grace Leventhal, Rachel Nusbaum, Yasmin Salehizadeh, Gillian W Hooker, Beth N Peshkin, Morgan Butrick, William Tuong, Jeena Mathew, David Goerlitz, Mary B Fishman, Peter G Shields, Marc D Schwartz. Behavioral and psychosocial responses to genomic testing for colorectal cancer risk. Genomics. 2013 Aug;102(2):123-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2013.04.002. Epub 2013 Apr 11.

• Marc D Schwartz, Heiddis B Valdimarsdottir, Beth N Peshkin, Jeanne Mandelblatt, Rachel Nusbaum, An-Tsun Huang, Yaojen Chang, Kristi Graves, Claudine Isaacs, Marie Wood, Wendy McKinnon, Judy Garber, Shelley McCormick, Anita Y Kinney, George Luta, Sarah Kelleher, Kara-Grace Leventhal, Patti Vegella, Angie Tong, Lesley King. Randomized noninferiority trial of telephone versus in-person genetic counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. PMID: 24449235, PMCID: PMC3927731, DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.51.3226, J Clin Oncol. 2014 Mar 1;32(7):618-26. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.51.3226. Epub 2014 Jan 21.

• Suzanne C O'Neill, Kara Grace Leventhal, Marie Scarles, Chalanda N Evans, Erini Makariou, Edward Pien,  Shawna Willey. Mammographic breast density as a risk factor for breast cancer: awareness in a recently screened clinical sample. PMID: 24725756, PMCID: PMC4011971, DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2014.02.005 Womens Health Issues. May-Jun 2014;24(3):e321-6. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2014.02.005. Epub 2014 Apr 13.

• Osnard M, Meredith RR, Leventhal KG, Dalal SP, Niessen TM, Liu G, Engels R, Lehet C, Cox MR, Haas A, Proffen M, Chan M, Bodnar BE. Development of a novel rapid response event review process for quality improvement. BMJ Open Qual. 2024 Jun 10;13(2):e002664. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002664. PMID: 38858076; PMCID: PMC11168121

Honors

Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards, Armstrong Award for Excellence in Quality and Safety, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, April 1, 2025

Lectures & Presentations

"Great Aspirations: Preventing Aspiration Pneumonia in the Hospital"

Memberships

Society of Hospital Medicine