Stephanie Leeds, MD MHS is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at Yale University, with an expertise in food allergy. Dr. Leeds graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a degree in literature, and she studied medicine at the University of Chicago. She completed her pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and she completed her allergy and immunology fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Leeds has published many original research studies, review articles, and book chapters, and she has a specific research interest in food allergy prevention and early food allergy intervention.

Dr. Leeds has a research interest in food allergy. She has created the first food allergy ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) model™, in which she facilitated food allergy education and case-based discussions with community pediatricians through teleECHO™ clinics.  She has also worked with the iREACH (Intervention to Reduce Early Peanut Allergy in Children) team to develop an innovative, interactive national curriculum of peanut allergy prevention.  Outside of food allergy education work, Dr. Leeds’ food allergy research is also clinical and translational, with studies looking at early oral immunotherapy, food allergen presentation within matrices, and potential food allergy prevention signals through maternal diet and comorbid disease states.