Faculty

Peter J Leary

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

206-685-2484

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2018
Master Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2013
MD Medicine (MD), Johns Hopkins University, 2005

Contact

206-685-2484

University of Washington Medicine
UW Medical Center, BB-1245 Box 356522
Seattle, WA 98195
WA

Bio

Peter Leary is the Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease program, a board-certified pulmonologist, and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. His research is focused on identifying and targeting mechanisms that contribute to pulmonary hypertension and heart failure.

 

Research Interests

His research interests include heart failure, right ventricular adaptation, pulmonary vascular disease and epidemiology.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

A Metabolomics Roadmap to Right Ventricular Function in Pulmonary Hypertension.
(2026 May 22)
Circ Res 138(11): e328512
Pi H, Gharib SA, Leary PJ

Sex Differences in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: Beyond Biology.
(2026 May 12)
Ann Am Thorac Soc
Tarras ES, Garcia MF, Leary PJ

Vascular compliance phenotyping in pulmonary arterial hypertension (a PVDOMICS study).
(2026 Aug)
JHLT Open 13(): 100560
Wilson TG, Oppegard L, Pi H, Houston BA, Tang WHW, Horn EM, Mukherjee M, Leary PJ, Robinson JC

Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty for Treatment of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: Statement From the BPA-CTEPH Alliance.
(2026 Apr 27)
JACC Cardiovasc Interv 19(8): 923-942
Auger WR, Krasuski RA, Mahmud E, Leary PJ, Steinberg ZL, Sandhu GS, Todoran T, Toma C, Darki A, Sethi S, Stefanescu Schmidt AC, Cuttica MJ, Schimmel DR, Frantz RR, Haddadin I, Witkin A, Channick RN, Rosenfield K, Bashir R

Association of Serum Angiopoietin-2 With Kidney Function Decline Among Participants in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Cohort.
(2026 Apr)
Kidney Med 8(4): 101279
Assefa M, Zelnick L, Kestenbaum B, Liles WC, Leary PJ, Bansal N, Bhatraju PK

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