Peter Joseph Leary MD PhD

Pulmonary Vascular Medicine

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology (Adjunct) at the University of Washington

1959 Ne Pacific StSeattle, WA 98195
Phone+1 206-598-4615
Fax+1 206-598-3036

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Summary

Peter Leary is the Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program at the University of Washington, a board-certified pulmonologist, and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology. His grant funded research program is focused on identifying and targeting mechanisms that contribute to pulmonary hypertension and heart failure.

Education & Training

University of Washington School of Public HealthPhD, Epidemiology, 2013 - 2018
University of Washington School of Public HealthMS, Epidemiology , 2010 - 2013
University of WashingtonFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2009 - 2012
Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2009
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 2005

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Certifications & Licensure

WA State Medical License 2009 - 2028
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
National Board of Physicians and Surgeons Critical Care Medicine
National Board of Physicians and Surgeons Internal Medicine
National Board of Physicians and Surgeons Pulmonary Disease

Clinical Trials

Beraprost-314d Added-on to Tyvaso® (BEAT) Start of enrollment: 2013 May 31
COMPLETED
PHASE3
OPsumit USers Registry Start of enrollment: 2014 Apr 30
COMPLETED
U.S. CTEPH Registry
COMPLETED

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Vascular compliance phenotyping in pulmonary arterial hypertension (a PVDOMICS study).
Talitha G Wilson, Laura Oppegard, Hongyang Pi, Brian A Houston, W H Wilson Tang
JHLT Open. 2026-08-01
Altitude-Associated Hemodynamic Alterations: Analysis from the Veterans Affairs Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking.
Brian A Houston, Suman Kundu, Jonah Garry, Mathew Freiberg, Peter J Leary
Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2026-07-14
Corrigendum to 'The landscape of referrals for lung transplantation in pulmonary arterial hypertension: A report from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry'[...
Nicholas A Kolaitis, Jonathan P Singer, Sonja Bartolome, Murali M Chakinala, Daniel Grinnan
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2026-06-01

Press Mentions

6-Part Special Podcast Series Aims to Raise Awareness of Meth-PAHSeptember 15th, 2025
Discover CircResFebruary 16th, 2023
COVID Vaccine for Patient with Rare Disease? Best Guess Is YesJanuary 21st, 2021

Grant Support

REVAMP-PH: REpurposing Valsartan May Protect against Pulmonary HypertensionUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON2023–2028
The Pulmonary Hypertension- Multi-Dimensional Omics to Characterize Right Heart Adaptation (PH-MOCHA) studyUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON2020–2025