David L Leung MD PhD

Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Radiology

Head of Imaging Daiichi Sankyo

Route 206 and Province Line Road,Princeton, NJ 08543
Phone+1 609-252-3269

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Education & Training

New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)Fellowship, Nuclear Radiology, 2008 - 2009
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)Residency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 2004 - 2008
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Morningside/WestInternship, Internal Medicine, 2003 - 2004
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 2003

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Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License Active through 2026
NJ State Medical License 2012 - 2017
American Board of Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Medicine
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Philip Johnson Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine Columbia University, 2008-2009
Ross Golden Research Resident Award in Radiology Columbia University Department of Radiology, 2008
magna cum laude Columbia College, Columbia University, 1994

Clinical Trials

Compare Technegas Ventilation-Perfusion SPECT and Xenon Ventilation-Perfusion Planar Imaging for Pulmonary Embolism
TERMINATED
PHASE3

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

19 citations
Baseline Radiomic Signature to Estimate Overall Survival in Patients With NSCLC.
Laurent Dercle, Matthew Fronheiser, Naiyer A Rizvi, Matthew D Hellmann, Sabine Maier
Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 2023-05-01
389 citations
Phase III trial of chemoradiotherapy with temozolomide plus nivolumab or placebo for newly diagnosed glioblastoma with methylated MGMT promoter.
Michael Lim, Michael Weller, Ahmed Idbaih, Joachim Steinbach, Gaetano Finocchiaro
Neuro-Oncology. 2022-11-02
38 citations
Safety and efficacy of nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma with brain metastases: CheckMate 920.
Hamid Emamekhoo, Mark R. Olsen, Bradley Curtis Carthon, Alexandra Drakaki, Ivor John Percent
Cancer. 2021-11-16

Journal Articles

Neoadjuvant GTX Followed by GX/RT and Surgery in Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Sherman, W.H., Chu, K., Chabot, J., Allendorf, J., Schrope, B.A., Hecht, E., Jin, B., Leung, D., Remotti, H., Addeo, G., Postolov, I., Wei, T., Fine, R.L., Cancer
Behind the Name: Eponyms of Neuroradiology
Chow, D.S., Essa, S.S., Kozberg, M.K., Lanzman, B., Miloushev, V.Z., Leung, D.K., Utukuri P.S., Filippi, C.G., and Lignelli, A., Neurographics
Positron emission tomography (PET) has limited utility in the staging of pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Einersen, P., Epelboym,I., Winner, M.D., Leung, D., Chabot, J.A., Allendorf, J.D., Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 1/1/2014

Books/Book Chapters

Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology
Chapter: Radiological Imaging of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Tumors
Leung, D.K., Schwartz, L.H.McGraw-Hill Education2017
Pictorial Atlas of Thyroid Imaging
Leung, D.K.Editors: Bhatt, R. and Mustafa H.E..Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers2016
Trans-arterial I-131 lipiodol therapy of liver tumors
Chapter: Nuclear Medicine Therapy: Principles and Clinical Applications
Leung, D.K., Divgi, C.Editors: Aktolun, C., Goldsmith, S.J..Springer, New York2012

Abstracts/Posters

Can Pretreatment PET-CT Predict RECIST 1.1 Response in Subjects with Locally Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Undergoing Neoadjuvant GTX Chemotherapy?
Jin, B., Hecht, E.M., Leung, D.K., Chu, K., Sandhu, R.S., Sherman, W.H., RSNA, 2014
Retrospective analysis of cancer cachexia in patients with lung cancer
Huang, K., Malhotra, S., Villanueva, N., Beck, K., Dietz, D., Consul, N., Fenn, K., Coke, C., Biswa, A., Divgi, C., Leung, D., Halmos, B., Vinnakota, R., Gavrancic, T...., Cancer Cachexia Conference, 2014
Utility of MIBI SPECT-CT and contrast-enhanced CT in primary hyperparathyroidism
Leung, D.K., Eckstein, D.A., Lameka, K.A., Lee, J.A., Divgi, C.R., Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2014