Overview

Dr. Leshnower earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas. He completed a residency in general surgery, a post-doctoral research fellowship, and a general surgery chief residency at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. At Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, he completed a cardiothoracic surgery residency and chief residency. He then served as a fellow in thoracic aortic surgery at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and as an endovascular surgery fellow at Arizona Heart Institute (now known as Abrazo Arizona Heart Institute), Phoenix.
Dr. Leshnower joined the Emory University faculty in 2011 and became Director of Thoracic Aortic Surgery for Emory Healthcare and Co-Director of the Emory Aortic Center in 2020. He has built the program into a top-five Thoracic Aortic Surgery program nationally in volume and outcomes. He also established an emergent transfer system for patients with lethal aortic disease to undergo rapid transfer from outside hospitals directly to the operating room at Emory University Hospital.
An active researcher, Dr. Leshnower has participated in more than 15 clinical trials, and serves as the national Co-PI of a trial of a single branched aortic arch stent graft system. His translational research lab focuses upon thoracic aortic disease. He serves as the Principal Investigator of an NIH R01 funded grant that is creating a risk stratification score for patients with acute type B aortic dissection combining clinical and biomechanical risk factors. Dr. Leshnower also leads multiple clinical research studies regarding patient outcomes with both medical and surgical therapies to treat aortic dissections and aneurysms.

Academic Appointment

• Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research