Dr. Levine's Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:
Brooklyn College (City University of New York) l963.: B. S. Cum Laude (Chemistry)
State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center. Syracuse, New York. 1966.: Doctor of Medicine, Cum Laude

POSITIONS HELD:
Intern and Resident in Medicine. 1966-68.: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Metabolism Resident. 1968-70.: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Research Fellow with Drs. R. Yallow and S. Berson 1969-70.: Bronx Veterans Hospital
Attending Physician, Department of Internal Medicine 1986 to present.: Yale-New Haven Hospital
Private practice of endocrinology 1970 to present: Guilford, Connecticut.
Chief Medical Officer, QBC Diagnostics Inc, 2005 to present: Guilford, Connecticut.
Independent Inventor, 1976 to present: Guilford, Connecticut.
Tutor to Yale Medical Students, 2005 to present: Yale University School of Medicine

APPOINTMENTS:
Instructor -> Associate Clinical Professor of Clinical Pathology 1970-1988.: Yale University School of Medicine.
Consultant to Becton Dickinson Corporation, New Jersey. l987 to 2005.
Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine 1988 to present.: Yale University School of Medicine
Attending Physician, Department of Internal Medicine 1986 to present.: Yale-New Haven Hospital

AWARDS:
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1965
Stuart I Gurman, MD Award, SUNY, Syracuse New Yorrk 1966
I R-100 Award for Quantitative Buffy Coat Analysis, 1984: Presented to the 100 most significant technologic achievements of that year.
R&D-100 Award for QBC Malaria Test, 1991: Presented to the 100 most significant technologic achievements of that year.
Eli Whitney Award, 1996: For outstanding individuals in recognition of significant contributions made to law or science by the Connecticut Patent Law Association.
R&D-100 Award for Rare Cell Detection (circulating carcinoma cells), 2004: Presented to the 100 most significant technologic achievements of that year

PUBLICATIONS:
Levine, Robert A., Doisy, Richard J., Streeten H.P.:: The Effect of Trivalent Chromium on Glucose Tolerance in Elderly Human Subjects.; Diabetes 15:539-40, 1966
Ziegler, Herman, E., Levine, Robert A., Lasky, Edward M.:: The Synthesis and Acid Dissociation Constants of Isomeric 1-Napthyl Naphoic Acids.; Annalen der Chemie 705:1967 (German).
Levine, Robert A., Streeten, David H.P.: Doisy, richard J.: The Effect of Trivalent Chromium on Glucose Tolerance in Elderly Human Subjects.; Metabolism 17:114-125, 1968.
Levine, Robert A.:: Reversal of Polymyxin B- Induced Apnea by Calcium Chloride; Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Vol. XXXVI, o. 5, Sept.-Oct. 380-387, 1969.
Felig, P., Brown, W.V., Levine, R.A., Klatskin, G.:: Glucose Homeostasis in Viral Hepatitis.; New England Journal of Medicine: 283:1436-1440 (Dec. 24), 1970.
Sobrinho, L.G., Levine, R.A., DeConti, R.C.:: Amenorrhea in Patients with Hodgkin's Disease Treated with Antineoplastic Agents.; American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 109: DNo. 1, 135-139, 1971.
Levine, R.A., Donabedian, R. K., Sobrinho, L.G.:: A Simplified Radio-immunoassay for Human Pituitary Luteinizing Hormone in Serum.; American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 109: No. 1, 135-139, 1971.
Levine, R. A.:: The Consumer's Point of View of the Role of the Clinical Chemist in the Practice of Medicine.; Clinical Chemistry 10, No. 6:639,1973
McDonald, J., Levine, R.A.:: Pattern Recognition in Laboratory Medicine.; 4th Annual New England Bioengineering Conference. Yale University Press ,May 7-8, 1976.
Wardlaw, S. C. and Levine, R. A.:: Quantitative Buffy Coat Analysis - A New Laboratory Tool Functioning as a Screening Complete Blood Cell Count.; The Journal of the American Medical Association 249: 617-620, 1983.
Wardlaw, S. C., and Levine, R. A., Spiro, H. M. and Johnson, C.:: A New Sample Collecting and Testing System for the Detection of Occult Blood in Feces.; Connecticut Medicine. Volume: March 1985.
Wardlaw, SC, Levine, RA:: Quantitative Buffy Coat Analysis, A New Research and Clinical Tool; Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Advances in Hematology, Banff, Alberta, Canada 1985 Springer-Verlag
Levine, RA, Hart, AH, Wardlaw, SC:: Quantitative Buffy Coat Analysis of Blood Collected from Dogs, Cats and Horses; JAVMA 189,#6:670-673 1986
Patton, CL, Spielman, A, Perrone, JB, Teklehamanon, A, Philppe, E, Zhang, Y, Levine, RA, Ward;aw, SC:: Diagnosis of Malaria Using Quantitative Buffy Coat Tubes; Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Malaria and Babesiosis Avency, France September 1987
Spielman,A, Perrone, JB, Teklehaimanot, FB, Balcha, A, Wardlaw, SC, Levine, RA:: Malaria Diagnosis by Direct Observation of Centrifuged Samples of Blood; Am J Trop Med Hyg 39,#4:337-342 October 1988
Levine, RA, Wardlaw, SC:: A New Technique For Examining Blood:; Am Scientist 76:592-8 Nov-Dec 1988
Levine, RA, Wardlaw, SC, Patton, CL:: Detection of Hematoparasites Using Quantitative Buffy Coat Analysis Tubes; Parasitology Today 5,#4:132-4 1989
Levine, RA, Wardlaw, SC: QBC malaria diagnosis.; Lancet. 1992 May 30; 339(8805):1354.
Chesanow N, Levine RA: Who wants to be a millionaire inventor?; Med Econ. 2001 Apr 9;78(7):145-6, 149, 152. E
Cobey. FC, Goldbarg SH, Levine RA, Patton CL:: Short report: Detection of borrelia (relapsing fever) in rural; Ethiopia by means of the quantitative buffy coat technique.; Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2001 Aug;65(2):164-5.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS, SYMPOSIA, Etc:
Levine, R.A.:: Digoxin (Lanoxin); Gradwohl's Clinical Laboratory Methods and Diagnosis, Volume One, 1980.
Hunt, Kevin J., Levine, R.A.:: A Practical Guide to Allergy for the Primary-Care Physician.; Access Primary Allergy Care System. Access Medical Systems, Inc., 1985
Levine, R.A.: Improving world health and alleviating human suffering:; MIT Media Laboratory, 1999
Levine, R.A.: Successful Inventing Using Biology as a Metaphor (Lecture); Columbia University School of Business, 1998
Levine, R. A.: Rules for Successful Inventing Using Biology as a Metaphor (Keynote Lecture); Medtech Insight Conference, Boston, MA. October 2002

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