Department of Surgery

Christine M. Leeper, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Leeper is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, and an attending surgeon in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.  She holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pediatric Surgery at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs.  Dr. Leeper runs a clinical and translational research program focused on pediatric trauma, transfusion practice and trauma-induced coagulopathy following injury. She is the principal investigator of the Massive Transfusion in Children (MATIC-2) platform randomized clinical trial (https://www.matic2.org).

 

Education & Training

  • General Surgery Residency, UPMC
  • MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • BS, Duke Univsersity
  • MSc, University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education
  • Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, UPMC

Representative Publications

Dr. Leeper's publications can be reviewed on PubMed

Research, Clinical, and/or Academic Interests

  • Pediatric Trauma
  • Trauma-induced coagulopathy
  • Transfusion medicine and hemostatic resuscitation
  • Clinical outcomes in trauma/hemorrhagic shock
  • Clinical trials

 

Lab Members:

Principle Investigator: Christine Leeper, MD

Katrina Morgan, MD

Erin Feeney, MD

Leah Furman, MD

Insiyah Campwala, MD

 

Locations:

UPMC Presbyterian

UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

 

Faculty by divisions

General/Trauma Surgery