Leah S. Millstein, MD

• Medical School: State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
• Residency: Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Combined Residency) at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and University Hospital at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH
• Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics

Dr. Millstein attended the State University of New York at Buffalo for medical school before completing an internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and University Hospital at Case Western Reserve in 2005. She served as a 5^th year chief resident for internal medicine and pediatrics at Rainbow Babies/Case before accepting a pediatric hospitalist position at Baltimore-Washington Medical Center in Maryland. She joined the University of Maryland in 2008 and is currently an Associate Professor in both Medicine and Pediatrics.  She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.  

Dr. Millstein is actively involved in her outpatient internal medicine clinical practice and her roles in medical education with both medical students and residents. She is currently the director of MS4 Ambulatory and the Rural-MD Scholars Program including the Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective (R-HEALE). Since joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Millstein has received the Ambulatory Medicine Teacher of the Year Award by the Department of Medicine twice, has received external grant funding, has published with APPD LEARN on educational evaluation, and has been awarded multiple Interprofessional Education SEED Grants for her work developing an IPE curriculum on Advance Care Planning. Dr Millstein’s current research interest is medical education, including learner assessment and curricular development.

Resident Education, Interprofessional Education, Transitions of Care, Pediatric Illnesses in Adults

1. Lewin LO, Beraho L, Dolan S, Millstein L, Bowman D. Interrater reliability of an oral case presentation rating tool in a pediatric clerkship. Teach Learn Med. 2013;25(1):31-8. PMID: 23330892, DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2012.741537, cited by 19

2. Millstein LS, MD, Charnaya O, MD, MS, Hart J, MD, Habicht R, MD, Giudice E, MD, Custer J, MD, Lewin L, MD. Implementation of a Monitored Educational Curriculum and Impact on Pediatrics Resident In-Training Examination Scores.  J Grad Med Educ. 2014 Jun;6(2):377-8.  PMC4054760, PMID: 24949165, doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-14-00080.1, cited by 1

3. Flurie RW, Gonzales JP, Tata AL, Millstein LS, Gulati M. Hospital delirium treatment: Continuation of antipsychotic therapy from the intensive care unit to discharge. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2015;72:S133-S139. PMID: 26582298, DOI: 10.2146/ajhp150474, cited by 23

4. D'Angelo RG, Rincavage M, Tata AL, Millstein LS, Gulati MS, Flurie RW, Gonzales JP. Impact of an Antipsychotic Discontinuation Bundle During Transitions of Care in Critically Ill Patients. J Intensive Care Med. 2017 Jan. PMID: 28049388, DOI: 10.1177/0885066616686741, cited by 7

5. Millstein LS, Wolfsthal SD, Frayha N, et al. Empowering Patients to Optimize their Medication Regimens: an Interdisciplinary Approach. J Medic Educ Training 2017; 1:013.

6. Millstein LS, Feigelman S, Custer JW, Giudice EL. Individualization of resident education through pathways and longitudinal experiences. Medical Education 2019 May; 53(5):506-507.  PMID: 30924178, DOI: 10.1111/medu.13876

7. Schumacher DJ, West DC, Schwartz A, Li S, Millstein L, Griego EC, Turner TL, Herman BE, Englander R, Hemond J, Hudson V, Newhall L, McNeal Trice K, Baughn J, Giudice E, Famiglietti H, Gifford K, Carraccio C, for the Association of Pediatric Program Directors Longitudinal Educational Assessment Research Network General Pediatrics EPAs Study Group. “Longitudinal Assessment of Resident Performance Using Entrustable Professional Activities: A Multi SiteStudy.” 2020;3(1):e1919316. PMID:31940042, PMCID:PMC6991321, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.19316

8. Witcraft EJ, Gonzales JP, Seung H, Watt I, Tata AL, Yeung A, Heavner MS, Qato DM, Gulati MS, Millstein LS.Continuation of Opioid Therapy at Transitions of Care in Critically Ill Patients. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. Jun 2020, doi.org/10.1177/0885066620933798

9. Millstein LS, Allen J, Bellin MH, Eveland SR, Baek D, Agarwal A, Hill T, Mutchie H, Cagle, JG (in press). An interprofessional training to improve advance care planning skills among medicine, nursing, and social work students. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. doi: 10.1016/j.xjep.2020.100382

10. Beck BM, Coda C, Gerges J, Allen J, Agarwal A, Mutchie HL, Baek D, Millstein LS (2020), Advance Care Planning: An Interprofessional Approach to Resident Education. J Am Geriatr Soc. doi:1111/jgs.16821

11. Oliver WD, D'Angelo R, Gonzales J,Wilson T, Millstein LS. (September 08, 2020) Acute Severe Hyponatremia Induced by a Duloxetine Overdose in an Elderly Woman. Cureus 12(9): e10318. doi:10.7759/cureus.10318

12. Moore J, Baer MR, Grover BE, Aster RH, Millstein LS. (September 17, 2020) Moxifloxacin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Mediated by Moxifloxacin-Dependent IgM and IgG Antiplatelet Antibodies: A Case Report. Cureus 12(9): e10507. doi:10.7759/cureus.10507
13. Sathe M, Werzen AS, Davis N, Millstein LS. (September 21, 2022) Implementing a Longitudinal Adolescent Transition of Care Curriculum: Identifying Comfort and Barriers Among Residents. Cureus 14(9): e29394. doi:10.7759/cureus.29394
14. Millstein LS, Rosenblatt P, Bellin MH, Whitney L, Eveland SR, Lee MC, Allen J, Mutchie HL, Becker TD, Cagle J. Advance Care Planning and Communication Skills Improve after an Interprofessional Team Simulation with Standardized Patients. Palliative Medicine Reports. Oct 2022.123-131.http://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2021.0086
15. Schumacher DJ, Michelson C, Winn A, Henry D, O’Connor M, Li ST, Blair RJ, Velazquez-Campbell M, Kihlstrom M, Borman-Shoap E, Ponitz K, Salvador-Sison J, Kinnear B, Turner DA, Martini A, Burrows HL, Patel R, Newhall LM, Osborn R, Mallory M, Scheurer JM, Grant M, Myers RE, Griego EC, Kravtchenko S, Jain S, Vu T, Schwartz A, for the Association of Pediatric Program Directors Longitudinal Educational Assessment Research Network (APPD LEARN) Crosswalk Study Group. “Graduating Residents Readiness for Unsupervised Practice.” Pediatrics 2025, accepted. (Included in the “for the APPD LEARN Crosswalk Study Group”).
16. Schumacher DJ, Winn AS, Hemond J, O’Dea CL, Garcia KL, Burke AE, Naifeh MM, Zurawick J, Kinnear B, Michelson C, Turner DA, Martini A, Schwartz A, for the Association of Pediatric Program Directors Longitudinal Educational Assessment Research Network (APPD LEARN) Crosswalk Study Group. “Associations Between Residency Program Size and Readiness for Unsupervised Practice in Pediatrics.” Academic Pediatrics 2025, accepted. (Included in the “for the APPD LEARN Crosswalk Study Group”).
17. Schumacher DJ, Sklansky DJ, Rissmiller B, Thoreson L, Waggoner-Fountain LA, Pareek R, Poynter SE, Winn AS, Michelson C, Kinnear B, Turner DA, Millstein LS, Di Rocco JR, Avants K, Lewis J, Srivastava P, Giudice EL, Arandes M, Yeh S, Schwartz A, for the Association of Pediatric Program Directors Longitudinal Educational Assessment Research Network (APPD LEARN) Crosswalk Study Group. “Using Entrustable Professional Activities to Make Reliable Overall Entrustment Decisions About Pediatric Residents.” Academic Medicine 2025, accepted.