Grace Leeuwen MD
Senior Attending Physician Years Of Experience: 23-
About the Physician
Dr. van Leeuwen is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar and has over 15 years of experience in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care. She is a Senior Attending in Sidra Medicine's Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, joining in May 2019. She is also a member of the ethics committee and is responsible for the Neonatal and Pediatric ECMO transport program.
Dr. Grace is co-chair of the Congenital Heart Academy and served as co-chair of the Marketing and Communication Committee of the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery 2023
She is on the editorial board of the Congenital Heart Disease Journal and ELSO education and was part of the ECMO working group for COVID-19 at ELSO.
She has published several papers and book chapters on her field, including the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO): 2020 Pediatric Respiratory ECMO Guideline.Dr. van Leeuwen was previously employed at Sabará Children’s Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, where she held multiple positions, including head of the Heart Center. Her notable contributions to the center include leading the development of the Neonatal and pediatric cardiac and ECMO programs, making it the first ECMO center in Brazil to receive the ELSO Award of Excellence. She used her experience and expertise at Sidra Medicine to help the ECMO program achieve the same Award of Excellence.
She is board-certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, and Critical Care.
Languages Spoken English, Portuguese, Spanish
Years Of Experience 23Education - MEDICAL DEGREE, Feb 1994 – Aug 2000
Federal University of Santa Maria – UFSM - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
Affiliations - Sidra Medicine - Qatar
- Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar
Areas of Interest - ECMO, septic shock, ethics, end of life care, and congenital heart defects.
Educational Interests - Co-chair of Congenital Heart Academy. Congenital Heart Academy (CHA) is a web based educational platform dedicated to worldwide healthcare providers involved with congenital heart diseases, sharing high quality scientific knowledge and experience, in a spirit of collaboration and union among the multidisciplinary team, all around the world, engaged in the care of patients with congenital or acquired heart defects, from the fetal life through adulthood. Congenital Heart Academy has presented more than 200 webinars to date, at no cost to attendees, providing over 2,000 hours of content. CHA has reached 97% of the countries on Earth, had over 20,000 unique atendees, and has had close to 400,000 views on YouTube channel, which houses recordings of the presentations.
Medical Publications - Ian Teixeira e Sousa, Cintia Tavares Cruz, Leonardo Cavadas da Costa Soares Grace Van Leeuwen, Daniel Garros. End-of Life care in Brazilian Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Journal de Pediatria (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jped.2023.02.003
- Youssef Quizad, Grace Van Leeuwen, Elisabetta Giacomini, Andrew Duward. Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Detect Thrombus Formation within the Extracorporeal Circuit. Saudi Crit Care J 2022;6: volume 6 issue 5 p 21
- Hejazi Y, Mann G, Boudjemline Y, Udassi JP, Van Leeuwen G, Diab KA. Topsy-Turvy Heart with Aortopulmonary Window and Severe Airway Malacia: Prenatal Diagnosis and Review of the Literature. Pediatr Cardiol. 2021 Aug . doi:10.1007/s00246-021-02710-1. PMID: 34448896; PMCID: PMC8391013.
- Uri Pollak, Yael Feinstein, Candace N. Mannarino, Mary E. McBride, Malaika Mendoza, Eitan Keizman, David Mishaly, Grace van Leeuwen, Peter P. Roeleveld, Lena Koers, Darren Klugman. The horizon of pediatric critical care. Front. Pediatr. (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.863868
- Christina Maratta, Renee M Potera, Grace van Leeuwen, Andrés Castillo Moya, Lakshmi Raman, Gail M Annich et al - Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO): 2020 Pediatric Respiratory ELSO Guideline - Asaio Journal 66 (9), 975-979, 2020
- MEDICAL DEGREE, Feb 1994 – Aug 2000