Richard Kemper Leuchter

Title(s)Assistant Professor-in-residence, Medicine
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    Dr. Leuchter is a hospitalist-researcher and Assistant Professor who joined the UCLA faculty in July 2022 after completing an NIH research training year in applied mathematics and machine learning. His research focuses on identifying low-value medical care (particularly in the acute care setting) and implementing interventions to reduce it. Dr. Leuchter has also obtained formal training in medical informatics, and draws on this in his research by integrating his interventions into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and leveraging principles of behavioral psychology to maximize their impact. His work has received numerous awards, coverage in the Los Angeles Times, and been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Currently, he has an NHLBI K award to design ML models that can predict unnecessary hospitalizations, which form the basis for a hospital avoidance clinic (called Next Day Clinic) he launched and is evaluating in a clinical trial. Dr. Leuchter is a practicing hospitalist primarily at UCLA Health and Olive View, and holds a joint appointment at the West Los Angeles VA. He also serves as Co-Director of the UCLA Nudge Unit and Assistant Director of UCLA Healthcare Value Analytics and Solutions (UVAS).

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    1. Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Groups May Have Underused The Emergency Department For Nonavoidable Visits, 2018-22. Health Aff (Millwood). 2025 Mar; 44(3):322-332. Leuchter RK, Craff M, Vangala S, Tseng CH, Arbanas JC, Tabatabai-Yazdi C, Hadfield M, Skinner D, Damberg CL, Sarkisian CA, Mafi JN, Kahn KL. PMID: 40030117; PMCID: PMC12236063.
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    2. Health Care Staffing Shortages and Potential National Hospital Bed Shortage. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Feb 03; 8(2):e2460645. Leuchter RK, Delarmente BA, Vangala S, Tsugawa Y, Sarkisian CA. PMID: 39969884; PMCID: PMC11840646.
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    3. Embedding research study recruitment within the patient portal preCheck-in. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 11 17; 30(12):2028-2035. Leuchter RK, Ma S, Bell DS, Hays RD, Vidorreta FJS, Binder SL, Sarkisian CA. PMID: 37595575; PMCID: PMC10654868.
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    4. Choosing Wisely interventions to reduce antibiotic overuse in the safety net. Am J Manag Care. 2023 10; 29(10):488-496. Leuchter RK, Sarkisian CA, Trotzky-Sirr R, Wei EK, Carrillo CA, Vangala S, Coffey C, Spellberg B, Melamed O, Jeng AC, Mafi JN. PMID: 37870542; PMCID: PMC10994234.
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    5. Evaluation of an Electronic Health Record Tool to Identify Echocardiograms That Do Not Change Clinical Care. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023 12; 36(12):1329-1332. Leuchter RK, Gulhar R, Maynick JD, Dardick LD, Vorobiof G, Tabibiazar R, Yang RM, Sarkisian CA, Woo HE. PMID: 37640087; PMCID: PMC11162694.
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    6. Relationship between exercise intensity and stress levels among U.S. medical students. Med Educ Online. 2022 Dec; 27(1):2027651. Leuchter RK, Stuber ML, McDonald AL, Croymans DM. PMID: 35048776; PMCID: PMC8786247.
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    7. Association Between In-Person vs Telehealth Follow-up and Rates of Repeated Hospital Visits Among Patients Seen in the Emergency Department. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 10 03; 5(10):e2237783. Shah VV, Villaflores CW, Chuong LH, Leuchter RK, Kilaru AS, Vangala S, Sarkisian CA. PMID: 36282505; PMCID: PMC9597390.
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    8. When peer comparison information harms physician well-being. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 07 19; 119(29):e2121730119. Reiff JS, Zhang JC, Gallus J, Dai H, Pedley NM, Vangala S, Leuchter RK, Goshgarian G, Fox CR, Han M, Croymans DM. PMID: 35858307; PMCID: PMC9303988.
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    9. Association between Covid-19 Vaccination and Influenza Vaccination Rates. N Engl J Med. 2022 06 30; 386(26):2531-2532. Leuchter RK, Jackson NJ, Mafi JN, Sarkisian CA. PMID: 35704429; PMCID: PMC9258773.
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    10. Examining the role of COVID-19 testing availability on intention to isolate: A Randomized hypothetical scenario. PLoS One. 2022; 17(2):e0262659. Zhang JC, Christensen KL, Leuchter RK, Vangala S, Han M, Croymans DM. PMID: 35108307; PMCID: PMC8809585.
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    11. Racial Disparities in Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Am J Prev Med. 2021 08; 61(2):235-239. Leuchter RK, Villaflores CWA, Norris KC, Sorensen A, Vangala S, Sarkisian CA. PMID: 33820665; PMCID: PMC8319069.
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    12. Accelerated rejection, thrombosis, and graft failure with angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibodies. Pediatr Nephrol. 2015 Aug; 30(8):1371-4. Pearl MH, Leuchter RK, Reed EF, Zhang Q, Ettenger RB, Tsai EW. PMID: 25956702; PMCID: PMC8514222.
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    13. A novel IgE antibody targeting the prostate-specific antigen as a potential prostate cancer therapy. BMC Cancer. 2013 Apr 17; 13:195. Daniels-Wells TR, Helguera G, Leuchter RK, Quintero R, Kozman M, Rodríguez JA, Ortiz-Sánchez E, Martínez-Maza O, Schultes BC, Nicodemus CF, Penichet ML. PMID: 23594731; PMCID: PMC3651304.
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    14. Targeting HER2/neu with a fully human IgE to harness the allergic reaction against cancer cells. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2012 Jul; 61(7):991-1003. Daniels TR, Leuchter RK, Quintero R, Helguera G, Rodríguez JA, Martínez-Maza O, Schultes BC, Nicodemus CF, Penichet ML. PMID: 22127364; PMCID: PMC3719406.
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    15. Lethal iron deprivation induced by non-neutralizing antibodies targeting transferrin receptor 1 in malignant B cells. Leuk Lymphoma. 2011 Nov; 52(11):2169-78. Rodríguez JA, Luria-Pérez R, López-Valdés HE, Casero D, Daniels TR, Patel S, Avila D, Leuchter R, So S, Ortiz-Sánchez E, Bonavida B, Martínez-Maza O, Charles AC, Pellegrini M, Helguera G, Penichet ML. PMID: 21870996; PMCID: PMC3732792.
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