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Robert S. Levine, MD
Professor, Director of Research Division


Department of Family and Community Medicine

(615) 327-5507

1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
Nashville, TN  37208

rlevine@mmc.edul

CV or Bio (PDF)

 
Professional Education

1963 B.A. Pre-Medical, Columbia University, New York, NY
1968 M.D.  Bowman Gray, Winston-Salem, NC 
1969 Intern, Pediatrics,  Bowman Gray, Winston-Salem, NC 
1972 Resident, Preventive Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

 

 
Research Interests

Health disparities
Cancer
Prevention
Medical Education

 

 
Selected Publications

Hennekens CH, Schneider W, Levine R African-Americans and cardiovascular disease: A major and avoidable contributor to disparities in mortality. In Hampton RL, Gullotta TA, Crowel RK  Editors. Handbook of African American Health. New York: Guilford Press. 2010.

Fry-Johnson Y, Levine RS, Rowley DL, Agboto V, Rust G. United States Black:White infant mortality disparities are not inevitable:Identification of community resilience independent from socioeconomic status. Forthcoming. Ethnicity and Disease. Volume 19: Supplement: Forthcoming, 2011.

Husaini BA, Mensah GA, Sawyer D, Cani VA, Samad Z, Hull PC, Levine RS, Sampson WKA. Race, gender and age differences in heart failure-related hospitalizations in a southern state:Implications for prevention. Circulation, Heart Failure. Forthcoming. 2011. 2010 Dec 22. [Epub ahead of print]

Rust G, Satcher D, Fryer GE, Levine RS, Blumenthal DS. Public health and medical care combine to reduce cause-specific U.S. mortality rates over a half century (1950-2000). Am J Pub Health. Am J Pub Health 2010;100:S95-S104. Doi:102015/AJPH:2009,164350.

Pisu M, Wang D, Maritn MY, Baltrus P, Levine. Geographic and racial variation in elderly mammography use. Journal on Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2010 Aug;21 (3):961-76PubMed # 20693738. NIHMSID # 225761.