Professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, Leonard was born April 12, 1934, and died July 7, 2015, in Lebanon, N.H.
He graduated from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn. At Princeton, Leonard wrote his senior thesis on “The Human Rights and Genocide Conventions.” A Prospect Club member and Woodrow Wilson major, he roomed at 532 Laughlin Hall with Burt Abrams and Leonard Inker.
Leonard’s life story is recounted as one honor after another. At NYU School of Medicine, he worked on immunology and tissue-graft rejection and then completed his psychiatry residency at Michigan, where he received a National Institutes of Health grant to study creative processes. He later received a National Institute of Mental Health Special Research Fellowship and worked with Nobel Prize-winner Konrad Lorenz. In 1995, he was the recipient of the J. Elliott Royer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychiatry.
In addition to his numerous educational, clinical, and research contributions to the University of California at San Francisco and the field of psychiatry, Leonard was a beloved husband, devoted father of two, and cherished papa to five grandchildren. He will be remembered for his humor, enthusiastic pursuit of fun, penchant for storytelling, and thoughtful advice.