She began her career as one of the first diplomats of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology. She also holds board certifications in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, meaning that she treats both adults and children with cholesterol problems. Dr. Liebeskind is also an expert in Familial Hypercholesterolemia, a genetic cholesterol problem.
In 2006 while working for Affinity Health System (now owned by Ascension), Dr. Liebeskind started the first combined pediatric and adult lipids clinic in Northeast Wisconsin. During her time at Affinity, she worked with colleagues at Mayo Clinic to create Affinity Health System’s COURAGE program, which is now offered by Network Health Plan. She also worked with doctors from across the Fox Valley to bring the first LDL Apheresis program to Northeast Wisconsin. (LDL apheresis is a process for lowering cholesterol in people with very severe genetic diseases).
She started a private practice, called Mobile Health Team, in 2013 in Neenah, Wisconsin. She also sees patients in Wauwatosa (Milwaukee), Wisconsin.
Dr. Liebeskind is Vice President of the Foundation of the National Lipid Association. She is a board member of the National Lipid Association and a past president of the Midwest Lipid Association. She is a faculty member teaching the Foundations in Lipidology course nationally for the National Lipid Association. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
She has also been named a regional expert in pediatric obesity, serving as a designated Childhood Obesity Advisor for Continuing Health (COACH) for the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a member of the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians as well.
