About
Richard Leigh MD is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research is focused on developing MRI-based tools to better understand, manage, and treat diseases that occur at the interface of the brain and the systemic circulation. This includes acute stroke triage, malignant edema assessment, primary and secondary intracranial hemorrhage, post-stroke inflammation, chronic cerebral small vessel disease, and vascular dementia. He has a particular interest in the blood-brain barrier and its role in the pathogenesis and progression of cerebrovascular disease.
Dr. Leigh originally trained as a biomedical and electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University prior to completing a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed a medical internship and neurology residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weil Cornell Medical Center where he was selected to serve as Chief Resident of Neurology from 2007 to 2008. After residency, he returned to Hopkins as a research fellow in the lab of Dr. Argye Hillis where he was mentored in MRI biomarker development by Dr. Peter Barker. He completed a fellowship in vascular neurology and joined the faculty of the Cerebrovascular Division at Johns Hopkins in 2010.
From 2014–2019 Dr. Leigh was an investigator in the intramural program at the National Institutes of Health where he formed the Neuro Vascular Brain Imaging (NVBI) Unit in the Stroke Branch of NINDS. After completion of his appointment at the NIH, he brought the NVBI to Hopkins and became an extramural NIH investigator. Dr. Leigh is part of the Brain Attack Team at Hopkins which manages treatment of patients with acute stroke presenting to area hospitals. He attends on the inpatient stroke wards of Johns Hopkins Hospital and sees patients with cerebrovascular disease in outpatient clinic at Green Spring Station in Lutherville, MD.
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