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Leslie Leighton

Leslie Leighton (Col ’74 CM)

Job announcement on December 18, 2018

Leslie S. Leighton (Col ’74 L/M) has been appointed a visiting lecturer in the department of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He teaches American history and the history of public health and medicine to undergraduates.

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Leslie Leighton (Col ’74 CM)

Other announcement on May 27, 2015

Leslie Leighton (Col ’74 CM) received a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University in May. Dr. Leighton practiced medicine from 1984 to 2001 but now focuses his research on the history of medicine, particularly the history of cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases. His dissertation title is Explaining the Decline of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in the United States in the 1960s: An Historical Analysis.