Leah S. Millstein, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Leah Millstein has been an educator at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) since 2008 who is actively involved in leadership for multiple residency programs and clinical resident training. Passionate about medical student education, she is director of the Rural-MD Scholars Program, including the Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective, and director of the Ambulatory course for fourth-year medical students.
Millstein, who holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, was assistant program director, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency, from 2010 to 2024 and was associate program director, Pediatric Residency Program, from 2011 to 2024.
Millstein has experience caring for patients of all ages in inpatient and outpatient settings and currently focuses her clinical time on patients with complex medical conditions in outpatient internal medicine. She is board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics.
For her work in education, Millstein was selected as a fellow of the Pass and Susel Academy of Educational Excellence at UMSOM. She also has received UMSOM’s Ambulatory Medicine Teacher of the Year Award twice for her work with internal medicine residents.
Millstein became director of the Rural-MD Scholars Program in 2024. The program aims to educate medical students to gain a deeper understanding of rural medicine and train physicians who will practice in underserved areas of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
She has received external grant funding and been awarded multiple interprofessional education (IPE) seed grants for her work developing an IPE curriculum on advance care planning. Millstein’s research interest is medical education, including learner assessment and curricular development.
She has been a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics since 2006 and is a member of the Medicine-Pediatrics Program Directors Association, Association of Pediatric Program Directors, Maryland Rural Health Association, and National Rural Health Association.
She earned her medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and completed an internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and University Hospitals of Cleveland at Case Western Reserve. She served as a fifth-year chief resident for internal medicine and pediatrics at Rainbow Babies/Case before accepting a pediatric hospitalist position at Baltimore-Washington Medical Center.
