Biography

Lucian Leape was born on November 7, 1930 in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Martha Kinne Palmer. He died on June 30, 2025 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 1988, he was professor of Surgery and Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine and the New England Medical Center.

His groundbreaking report in 1999 found that medical errors resulted in 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year in the United States.

A graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Medical School.

He trained in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in pediatric surgery at Boston Children's Hospital.