DR. KENNETH M. LEAVITT, DPM

Dr. Leavitt specializes in surgical correction of foot problems. He places a high priority on learning and using the most up-to-date procedures for the benefit of his patients. His professional career has been characterized by his willingness to work in close collaboration with other kinds of medical specialists (orthopedists, radiologists, neurologists, anesthesiologists, plastic surgeons, pediatricians, etc.) to assure the best possible outcomes for his patients. Dr. Leavitt is a Board Certified Reconstructive Foot Surgeon and has been in practice treating disorders of the foot, ankle joint and lower leg since 1983. He is a native of Massachusetts, a 1979 graduate of Boston University and a 1983 graduate of the College of Podiatric Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He is a member of the American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons and a long-time instructor in affiliation with several major post-graduate podiatric surgical training programs in the Boston area.

In 1992 Dr. Leavitt led a team on a medical teaching mission to the newly liberated, former Soviet Republic, Lithuania. In 1993, with the endorsement of the U.S. State Department, he and several other U.S. and Lithuanian physicians founded a non-profit medical and surgical clinic in Lithuania, the Baltic-American Medical & Surgical Clinic. The Clinic is the only one of its kind in the former Soviet Union and includes primary care, emergency medicine and a variety of surgical specialties staffed by English speaking foreign and indigenous physicians and nurses. A variety of Boston area surgeons visited the Clinic and performed and taught their specialties. As the clinic grew, additional funding was needed to finance the facility, import modern equipment and drugs which while readily available in the U.S. were out of reach in Eastern Europe. To accomplish this, Dr. Leavitt gave up his practice in a suburb of Boston and moved with his family to Lithuania for 5 years. He assumed the role of Director of the Clinic and worked to secure funding for the clinic and to identify ways to import the necessary equipment and drugs until the local staff could be trained in the leadership, administrative and medical skills needed for the clinic to endure.

Dr. Leavitt's medical and surgical teaching and clinical experience in Lithuania brought him into contact with many profoundly diseased and disabled children and adults - not cared for during the 50-year Soviet occupation. For his humanitarian work and contributions to the development of that country, the President of Lithuania awarded Dr. Leavitt full citizenship in 1999.

When Dr. Leavitt returned to the U.S., his prior clinical experiences and his ongoing clinical acumen earned him the privilege of being accepted to join the surgical staff of the New England Baptist Hospital, one of the ten best orthopedic hospitals in the United States. Dr. Leavitt now serves the Boston and New England areas from his office at New England Baptist Hospital. Dr. Leavitt also maintains surgical and admitting privileges at the Winchester Hospital, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Caritas-St. Elizabeth Medical Center.

New England Baptist Hospital
125 Parker Hill Avenue, Suite 390
Boston, MA 02120