Matthew Leveno, M.D.
Associate Professor

Dr. Matt Leveno was raised in Dallas, Texas. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and returned to his Dallas home to attend UT Southwestern for medical school. Prior to starting his internship in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern, he spent one year working in various clinics throughout Mexico and Guatemala. Upon completion of his internship he completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Boston University. He then returned to UT Southwestern to complete his Internal Medicine residency. He completed Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship training at UT Southwestern and received his research mentorship under Dr. Beth Levine while investigating autophagy’s role in innate immunity. Dr. Matt Leveno is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.  Currently, he is Medical Director for the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Parkland Health and Hospital Systems.

Medical School

UT Southwestern Medical School (2002)

Internship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2003), Internal Medicine

Residency

Boston Medical Center (2006), Emergency Medicine

Residency

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2008), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2012), Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine

• Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Critical Care Outcomes and Resource Utilization
• Critical Illness and Decompensated Cirrhosis
• Inpatient management of alcohol withdrawal
• Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
• Sepsis

Featured Publications

Identification of a candidate therapeutic autophagy-inducing peptide.

Shoji-Kawata S, Sumpter R, Leveno M, Campbell GR, Zou Z, Kinch L, Wilkins AD, Sun Q, Pallauf K, MacDuff D, Huerta C, Virgin HW, Helms JB, Eerland R, Tooze SA, Xavier R, Lenschow DJ, Yamamoto A, King D, Lichtarge O, Grishin NV, Spector SA, Kaloyanova DV, Levine B Nature 2013 Feb 494 7436 201-6

• Emergency Medicine Consultant of the Year Award
  (2018)
• Internal Medicine Housestaff Outstanding Research Mentor Award
  (2015-2016)
• Emergency Medicine Consultant of the Year Award
  (2014)
• Internal Medicine Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award
  (2013-2014)
• Senior Resident Teaching Award
  UT Southwestern Internal Medicine Residency (2008)
• Senior Resident Teaching Award
  Boston Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency (2006)