Faculty

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Charles E. Leonard, PharmD, MSCE, MPH, FISPE

Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology

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Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
16 Floor 4W, 105D
3a 3600 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Email:
celeonar@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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13 Education:
21 b PharmD 1e (Clinical Pharmacy) c
2c Duquesne University, 2001.
21 9 MSCE 22 (Clinical Epidemiology) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
21 8 MPH 1a (Public Health) c
28 Yale University, 2025.
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Links
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Description of Clinical Expertise

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Description of Research Expertise

1c2 epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, real-world evidence, comparative effectiveness, comparative safety, observational studies, cohort, case-control, self-controlled case series, case-crossover, pharmacovigilance, Medicaid, Medicare, drug interactions, sudden cardiac arrest, ventricular arrhythmia, diabetes, hypoglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, ischemic stroke, propensity scores, high-dimensional propensity scores, causal inference
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Selected Publications

14b Pham Nguyen TP, Hennessy S, Brensinger CM, Bilker WB, Dember LM, Miano TA, Vo T, Willis AW, Leonard CE: Impact of empiric potassium supplementation on mortality, sudden cardiac arrest, and stroke in furosemide initiators. Br J Clin Pharmacol [in press] 2026.

114 Nock MR, Ahn S, Leonard CE, Ogdie A, Cohen JM: Ambient temperature and psoriatic arthritis odds among patients with psoriasis: A cross-sectional analysis. J Psoriasis Psoriatic Arthritis [in press] 2026.

167 Harris DA, D'Amico A, Mehta HB, Daiello LA, Berry SD, Leonard CE, Hsu YC, Kiel D, Hayes KN, Riester M, Roberts JE, Reich L, Free P, Zullo AR: Identifying observable medication use time in administrative databases: A tutorial using nursing home residents. Am J Epidemiol [in press] 2025.

159 Pham Nguyen TP, Leonard CE, Brensinger CM, Bilker WB, Chung SP, Horn JR, Bogar K, Miano TA, Hennessy S: Effect of concomitant use of oral anticoagulants and oral dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors on serious bleeding events. Clin Pharmacol Ther 117(4): 1012-1016, Apr 2025.

1a5 Leonard CE, Bogar K, Brensinger CM, Bilker WB, Bell ML, Flory JH, Shi C, Chen C, Hennessy S.: Do relationships between ambient temperature and serious adverse health outcomes vary among users of different antidiabetes drugs? A retrospective cohort study of United States Medicaid beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes. BMJ Open 14: e085139, Oct 2024 Notes: doi:10.1136/ 28 bmjopen-2024-085139.

151 Dhopeshwarkar N, Yang W, Hennessy S, Rhodes JM, Cuker A, Leonard CE: SuperLearner with high-dimensional propensity score to improve confounding adjustment: A real-world application in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 33(1): e5678, Jan 2024.

11a Dhopeshwarkar N, Yang W, Hennessy S, Rhodes JM, Cuker A, Leonard CE.: Bleeding with concomitant ibrutinib and oral anticoagulant therapy: A population-based cohort study. Am J Hematol 98(3): E49-E52, Mar 2023.

11b Dawwas GK, Leonard CE, Lewis JD, Cuker A.: Risk for Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism and Bleeding With Apixaban Compared With Rivaroxaban: An Analysis of Real-World Data. Ann Intern Med 175(1): 20-28, Jan 2022.

d7 Medaglio D, Stephens-Shields AJ, Leonard CE.: Research and scholarly methods: Propensity scores. J Am Coll Clin Pharm 5(4): 467-475, Apr 2022.

18a Bogar K, Brensinger CM, Hennessy S, Flory JH, Bell ML, Shi C, Bilker WB, Leonard CE.: Climate change and ambient temperature extremes: Association with serious hypoglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, and sudden cardiac arrest/ventricular arrhythmia in persons with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 45(11): e171-e173, Nov 2022.

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