The Practice

The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care physicians are internationally known for their expertise in diagnosing, treating, and preventing cardiovascular diseases.

Bringing the future of cardiovascular health to life.

D. Richard Leachman, M.D.

A practicing cardiologist since 1982, Dr. D. Richard Leachman earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AOA). He later conducted his medical training at Parkland Memorial, also in Dallas. He is board certified through the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Interventional Cardiology. Possessing special cardiovascular interests in Preventative Cardiology and Clinical Consultative Cardiology, Dr. Leachman is fluent in English and Spanish and is conversational in Italian.


Patient Testimonials

  • Excellent, knowledgeable physician and great office support.

    – Barry T.

  • Great doctors and assistants.

    – Jorge M.

  • Great doctor. In-house testing is great, no traveling all over for different tests.

    – S.

  • Very knowledgeable with visits and tests. Plus he helped discover a problem that others could not find. He notified me that the heart was fine, but my liver enzymes were elevated. I had been having increasingly severe muscle weakness for a couple of years, and my primary care physician could not find the cause. We realized that the combination of muscle weakness and high liver enzymes were indicative of myositis, which neurologist and rheumatologist confirmed and treated. I'm back to normal now.

    – Paulette K.