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Mary B. Leonard is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Physiology, General Health Professions, Surgery, Nephrology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to Diversity and Career in Medicine, Child and Adolescent Health, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments, Bone Health and Osteoporosis Research, Congenital Heart Disease Studies, and Body Composition Measurement Techniques.

Recent significant papers authored by Mary B. Leonard include:

  • The importance of trustworthiness: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Pediatric Research
  • Association of Burnout, Professional Fulfillment, and Self-care Practices of Physician Leaders With Their Independently Rated Leadership Effectiveness, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Assessment of the Association of Leadership Behaviors of Supervising Physicians With Personal-Organizational Values Alignment Among Staff Physicians, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Strength training is more effective than aerobic exercise for improving glycaemic control and body composition in people with normal-weight type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial, 2023, Diabetologia
  • Validation of a description of sarcopenic obesity defined as excess adiposity and low lean mass relative to adiposity, 2020, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle

Mary B. Leonard frequently publishes in several scholarly venues, including:

  • Pediatric Research
  • PEDIATRICS
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Their collaborative work includes frequent partnerships with co-authors such as:

  • Jin Long
  • Babette S. Zemel
  • Joshua F. Baker
  • Latha Palaniappan
  • Susan Ziolkowski

Best Publications

  • Fibroblast growth factor 23 is elevated before parathyroid hormone and phosphate in chronic kidney disease.

    Tamara Isakova;Patricia Wahl;Gabriela S. Vargas;Orlando M. Gutiérrez

  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Risks of Mortality and End-Stage Renal Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

    Tamara Isakova;Huiliang Xie;Wei Yang;Dawei Xie

  • Executive summary of the 2017 KDIGO Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) Guideline Update: what’s changed and why it matters

    Markus Ketteler;Geoffrey A. Block;Pieter Evenepoel;Masafumi Fukagawa

  • Official Positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry and Executive Summary of the 2007 ISCD Pediatric Position Development Conference

    Sanford Baim;Mary B. Leonard;Maria Luisa Bianchi;Didier B. Hans

  • International Society for Clinical Densitometry 2007 Adult and Pediatric Official Positions

    E. Michael Lewiecki;Catherine M. Gordon;Sanford Baim;Mary B. Leonard

  • Obesity during childhood and adolescence augments bone mass and bone dimensions

    Mary B Leonard;Justine Shults;Brenda A Wilson;Andrew M Tershakovec

  • Height adjustment in assessing dual energy x-ray absorptiometry measurements of bone mass and density in children

    Babette S. Zemel;Mary B. Leonard;Andrea Kelly;Joan M. Lappe

  • KDOQI US commentary on the 2009 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of CKD-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD).

    Katrin Uhlig;Jeffrey S. Berns;Bryan Kestenbaum;Raj Kumar

  • Chronic kidney disease and bone fracture : a growing concern

    Thomas L. Nickolas;Mary B. Leonard;Elizabeth Shane

  • Risk factors for low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in otherwise healthy children and adolescents

    Francis L Weng;Justine Shults;Mary B Leonard;Virginia A Stallings

  • Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prevention, and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral and Bone Disorder: Synopsis of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline Update

    Markus Ketteler;Geoffrey A. Block;Pieter Evenepoel;Masafumi Fukagawa

  • Fibroblast growth factor 23 and Inflammation in CKD.

    Jair Munoz Mendoza;Tamara Isakova;Ana C. Ricardo;Huiliang Xie

  • Proximal femur bone geometry is appropriately adapted to lean mass in overweight children and adolescents

    Moira A. Petit;Thomas J. Beck;Justine Shults;Babette S. Zemel

  • 2013 Pediatric Position Development Conference: Executive Summary and Reflections

    Catherine M. Gordon;Mary B. Leonard;Babette S. Zemel

  • Fat and lean BMI reference curves in children and adolescents and their utility in identifying excess adiposity compared with BMI and percentage body fat

    David R Weber;Reneé H Moore;Mary B Leonard;Babette S Zemel

  • Type 1 Diabetes Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Fracture Across the Life Span: A Population-Based Cohort Study Using The Health Improvement Network (THIN)

    David R. Weber;Kevin Haynes;Mary B. Leonard;Steven M. Willi

  • Cortical Bone Water: In Vivo Quantification with Ultrashort Echo-Time MR Imaging

    Aranee Techawiboonwong;Hee Kwon Song;Mary B. Leonard;Felix W. Wehrli

  • Osteoporosis in chronic kidney disease

    John Cunningham;Stuart M Sprague;Jorge Cannata-Andia;Jorge Cannata-Andia;Maria Coco;Maria Coco

  • Discrepancies in pediatric bone mineral density reference data: potential for misdiagnosis of osteopenia.

    Mary B. Leonard;Kathleen J. Propert;Babette S. Zemel;Virginia A. Stallings

  • Fat and lean BMI reference curves in children and adolescents and their utility in identifying excess adiposity compared with BMI

    David R Weber;Mary B Leonard;Babette S Zemel

Frequent Co-Authors

Babette S. Zemel
Babette S. Zemel Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Justine Shults
Justine Shults University of Pennsylvania
Harold I. Feldman
Harold I. Feldman University of Pennsylvania
Robert N. Baldassano
Robert N. Baldassano Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Virginia A. Stallings
Virginia A. Stallings Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Raymond R. Townsend
Raymond R. Townsend University of Pennsylvania
Myles Wolf
Myles Wolf Duke University
Ian H. de Boer
Ian H. de Boer University of Washington
Alan S. Go
Alan S. Go Kaiser Permanente
Jiang He
Jiang He Tulane University

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