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| Name | Leonid Poretsky |
| First Name | Leonid |
| Last Name | Poretsky |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Birthday | August 7 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place of Birth | Saint Petersburg |
| Home Town | |
| Birth Country | Russia |
| Birth Sign | Leo |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Leonid Poretsky Biography
Leonid Poretsky is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on August 7, 1954 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Leonid Poretsky (born August 7, 1954) is a Russian-born American endocrinologist. His research interests include mechanisms of insulin action in the ovary, endocrinological aspects of AIDS, and clinical outcomes in diabetes. He has authored over 100 publications and has served on the National Institutes of Health’s review committees and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and other endocrine journals.
He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1979. Upon completing his internal medicine residency program, he began a fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center). He also completed a research fellowship in medicine at Harvard Medical School (1983–1985), where he was mentored by Dr. Jeffrey Flier.
Leonid Poretsky was born on August 7, 1954 in Leningrad, Russian SSR. His mother, Nina, was a well known pediatrician from Bobruisk, Belarus who lived and worked in Leningrad. His father was a prominent engineer. Poretsky graduated from First (Pavlov) Medical Institute in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg State Medical University), cum laude in 1977.
Leonid Poretsky Net Worth
Leonid is one of the richest Physician from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leonid Poretsky's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Physician |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Poretsky has been vocal in the media about how health care policy can affect patient care. In the 1990s he wrote a letter to the editor of New York Times concerning how Medicaid payment caps can limit physicians’ availability to patients. In July 2012 he wrote an op-ed for Forbes which drew comparisons between the bureaucratic behavior of the American healthcare system and that of the Soviet Union’s, which he says “collapsed under the weight of its own bureaucratic inefficiencies two decades ago.” This article was followed by a scholarly publication on the subject entitled “The sovietization of American medicine: Notes from the front lines”, which appeared in Journal in American Physicians and Surgeons, 2013.
While at Beth Israel Medical Center (2000 – 2014), Dr. Poretsky served as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Vice-Chairman for Research, and Interim Chairman in the Department of Medicine. He held the Gerald J. Friedman endowed chair in endocrinology and metabolism at Beth Israel Medical Center and was a founding director of the Gerald J. Friedman Diabetes Institute.
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Additionally, in 1987 Poretsky was a key member of the team which described a condition called hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism, which is characterized by deficiency of adrenal hormone aldosterone, in patients with AIDS. This discovery resulted in introduction of treatment with fludrocortisone, which proved to be extremely effective and almost immediately converted most patients with this condition from being unable to stand (because of a severe drop in blood pressure upon standing) to being mobile and more functional.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Leonid Poretsky. You may help us to build the dating records for Leonid Poretsky!He contributed to and edited the comprehensive textbook Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, which has been widely cited, and has gone through three editions so far (2002, 2010 and 2017). The book covers a wide range of topics on diabetes.
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
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While working as a research fellow at Harvard in the early 1980s, Poretsky became known for discovering, describing and characterizing insulin receptors in the human ovary.
In 2012 he edited Diabetes Mellitus: A Concise Clinical Guide, which covers “the basics of diagnosis, complications, therapies and prevention of diabetes.” The book consists of sections originally published in the second edition of Principles of Diabetes Mellitus.
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Leonid Ranked on the list of most popular Physician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Leonid Poretsky celebrates birthday on August 7 of every year.
In 2013 he published a letter in the Wall Street Journal talking about inadequate methods used by the government to assess hospital performance and a letter regarding policy changes needed to reduce hospital readmissions. In 2017, he published a letter about Medicare being allowed to compete with private health insurance plans.
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