.png)
Professor, Chief-General and Community Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Dr. Levy has spent the last 20 years focusing his energies and talents on improving access to care for at-risk children. In 1999, he became a Georgetown University Fellow in Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy. This two-year fellowship focused on improving access to care, advocating for children’s issues, and finding creative solutions to complex problems. In 2000, Dr. Levy took over as Medical Director of Community Pediatrics and re-built the program into the Division of Community Pediatrics. Over the next 16 years, he developed and operated multiple community-based programs such as: The KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic (a mobile medical home), the Anacostia Wellness Center at Anacostia Senior High School, the KMMC Mobile Nutrition Program, and the HOYA Clinic at DC General. This latter program, started in 2007, was the first medical student driven homeless shelter clinic in Washington, DC, and served the children and families at the largest family shelter in DC with direct care and multiple educational programs. He became a Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and he served as the Co-Director of the Social Justice and Health Advocacy Curriculum at the GUSOM from 2006-2010, which fostered social justice and advocacy skills for medical students throughout their training and as a Faculty Mentor on the Population Health Track.
Dr. Levy was a board member and treasurer of the DC Chapter of the AAP from 2003-2010. In 2006 and again in 2008, Dr. Levy received distinguished service awards from the DC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He stepped down in 2010 because he was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship. During the fellowship he worked for US Senator Conrad (ND-D) and the Senate Budget committee on the implementation of health reform and other health related issues. From 2011 to 2014, he was an Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center, working on a Physical Activity and Nutrition Initiative, which published a national report in 2012, a white paper in 2014 and several publications. Dr. Levy has dedicated his career to community pediatrics and has worked closely with multiple governmental and non-governmental agencies on issues of homeless, foster care, school health, immunizations, and overall access issues. He has worked on population health system-based changes including a city-wide quality improvement initiative to better understand the health of DC children. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Levy moved to Atlanta to be the Medical Director of the Children’s Care Network (TCCN), which was the clinically integrated network of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. There he led the Quality Strategy for the 1300 physician network. During that time, he was a contributor to the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) on a toolkit for Evaluating Childhood Healthy Weight Programs. In 2021, Dr. Levy joined the faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin faculty as the Section Chief of General and Community, to rebuild the Section. He is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and the Ted D Kellner Endowed Professor of Pediatrics. He is also a Board member on Children’s Wisconsin primary care group, the Children’s Medical Group (CMG). Dr. Levy received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and is a member of the Delta Omega Honors Society. He is a medical graduate of New York Medical College.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.