Dartmouth Events

“Can the Medical Profession Survive the Current Disruption?”

Richard I. Levin, MD, FACP, FACC, FAHA

President and CEO, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

New York and McGill Universities

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditoria E&F, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by the Department of Medicine

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

and The William N. Chambers Memorial Fund

Across his career of more than forty years, Richard I. Levin, MD has studied the heart as both the instrument of blood flow and the metaphorical source of our humanity. For the past five years, he has served as President and CEO of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation and has been dedicated to supporting health professionals in training and in practice while advocating for compassionate, collaborative, scientifically excellent care. Prior to joining the Foundation, Levin served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-Principal for Health Affairs at McGill from 2006 to 2011. Dr. Levin is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at both McGill University in Montreal and at New York University where he was also Vice Dean for Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs. He also served a year as Senior Scholar in Residence at the Association for Academic Health Centers in Washington, DC. Dr. Levin is a physician, investigator, educational innovator, scientist, inventor and essayist. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. His honors include the Valentine Mott Medal, the Ester Hoffman Beller Research Award and election to the Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science from Wake Forest University. Dr. Levin’s professional interests include endothelial cell biology, the prevention of atherothrombotic events, the nature of empathy, the reformation of medicine for the support of compassionate, collaborative care, and the role of new information technologies in medical education and practice. Dr. Levin earned a B.S. in Biology with Honors from Yale University and graduated from the NYU School of Medicine where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. 

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