LeonardoVRiellaMDPhD
Nephrology • Boston, MAKidney & Pancreas Transplantation
Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Office
55 Fruit St.
White-5-546C
Boston, MA 02114Phone(617) 726-5277
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Summary
- Dr. Leonardo Riella is a transplant nephrologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been in practice for 16 years. He is the Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation and the Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation. He has a PhD in immunology of transplantation. He speaks multiple languages, including Italian, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. He specializes in kidney transplantation and has expertise in recurrent disease post-transplant, chronic antibody-mediated rejection and non-invasive monitoring of rejection.
Education & Training
Brigham and Women's HospitalFELLOWSHIP
Brigham and Women's HospitalRESIDENCY
Federal University of Parana Faculty of MedicineMEDICAL_SCHOOL
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 2007 - 2021- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- BWH/MGH Teaching Faculty Award Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, 2020
- Department of Medicine Chair Research Award Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2019
- Bright Futures Prize Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2019
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Clinical Trials
- Belatacept Conversion in Proteinuric Kidney Transplant Recipients Start of enrollment: 2015 Aug 01Leonardo V Riella, MD, PhD
- Conversion to Sirolimus: Effects in Cytomegalovirus Infection Recurrence Start of enrollment: 2015 Aug 01Geovana Basso, MD, Helio Tedesco Silva Junior, PhD, Claudia Rosso felipe, PhD, Leonardo V. Riella, PhD, and Jose O. Medina Pestana, PhD
- Efficacy and Safety of Eculizumab for Treatment of Antibody-mediated Rejection Following Renal Transplantation. Start of enrollment: 2013 Nov 01Flavio Vincenti, MD, Leonardo V Riella, MD, PhD, Reza Abdi, MD, Jamil Azzi, MD, Edgar Milford, MD, Steven Gabardi, PharmD, Andrew Siedlecki, MD, Martina McGrath, MD, Jae Hyung Chang, MD, and Milagros Sama...
- Novel Strategies to Improve Immunomodulation and Non-invasive Clinical Monitoring in VCA Bohdan Pomahac, MD
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Early Persistent Hyperparathyroidism Post-Renal Transplantation as a Predictor of Worse Graft Function and Mortality After Transplantation.Isakov, O., Ghinea, R., Beckerman, P., Mor, E., Riella, L. V., Hod, T.> ;Clinical transplantation. 2020 Sep 20
- Acute kidney injury in renal transplant recipients undergoing cardiac surgery.Hundemer, G. L., Srivastava, A., Jacob, K. A., Krishnasamudram, N., Ahmed, S., Boerger, E., Sharma, S., Pokharel, K. K., Hirji, S. A., Pelletier, M., Safa, K., Kulvich...> ;Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association. 2020 Sep 7
- Donor myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) prolong allogeneic cardiac graft survival through programming of recipient myeloid cells in vivo.Cai, S., Choi, J. Y., Borges, T. J., Zhang, H., Miao, J., Ichimura, T., Li, X., Xu, S., Chu, P., Eskandari, S. K., Allos, H., Alhaddad, J. B., Muhsin, S. A., Yatim, K....> ;Scientific reports. 2020 Aug 30
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Authored Content
- Kidney Transplant iBookJune 2019
Press Mentions
Face Transplants Improve Lives Years Later
Five-Year Outcomes for Face Transplant RecipientsMay 30, 2019
Five-Year Follow-up After Face TransplantationMay 29, 2019- Join now to see all
Grant Support
- Novel Role of Siglec-E Inhibitory Receptor in AlloimmunityNIH2019–2024
- Targeting Innate Immune Regulators to Reduce Rejection in Vascularized Composite Tissue TransplantsDepartment of Defense2020–2023
- Significance of non-HLA antibodies in acute and chronic rejection of vascularized composite allograftsDepartment of Defense2019–Present
- Modulating donor dendritic cells in VCA transplantationDepartment of DefensePresent
- Biomarkers in VCA transplantationDepartment of DefensePresent
Committees
- Co-Director of the AST Fellows Symposium, American Society of Transplantation 2016 - Present
- Co-Chair, American Society of Transplantation Fellows Symposium 2016 - Present
Professional Memberships
- Fellow
Other Languages
- Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
Hospital Affiliations
Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, Massachusetts- Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
Industry Relationships
- Investigator-initiated research, Bristols-Meyers-Squibb
External Links
- Personal Websitehttp://www.leoriella.com
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