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Dr. Edward Levine
Contact Information
- Medical Center Boulevard Winston Salem, NC 27157
- (336) 716-4276
- elevine@wakehealth.edu
One of the most difficult challenges faced by the medical profession during the 20th Century was an explosion in the number of cases of mesothelioma. This type of cancer, which is linked to asbestos exposure, is extremely rare and has a different pathology than other, more common cancers. Nevertheless, there are numerous doctors who specialize in the treatment of mesothelioma. One of these physicians is Dr. Edward A. Levine.
Dr. Levine earned his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School and completed his residency in surgery at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of Illinois. He is board-certified in surgery.
Dr. Levine joined the staff at Louisiana State University in New Orleans before moving to Wake Forest University in 1998. He became a professor in 2002 and is one of four faculty members of Wake Forest's Surgical Oncology Service. He is the Director of the Surgical Oncology Clinics, the surgical oncology conference, and the multimodality breast clinic for the Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Cancer Center and the Chief of Surgical Oncology Services.
His clinical interests focus on general surgical oncology with an emphasis on melanoma, sarcoma, breast and gastrointestinal malignancies. He is the principal investigator in approximately 20 research projects, including one involving the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and one involving the National Surgical Breast and Bowel Project. He also heads Wake Forest's program of Cytoreductive Surgery and Intraperitoneal Hypothermic Chemotherapy for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis, the second largest of its type in the western hemisphere.
Dr. Levine has received numerous grants from the National Cancer Institute, Industry, and Cancer Center to fund translational research of the genomic analysis of solid tumors. He is also the Cancer Liaison Physician between the American College of Surgeons and Wake Forest University/North Carolina Baptist Hospital. In addition, Dr. Levine serves on the Breast and Colorectal committees of the National Surgical Breast and Bowel Project as well as the Institutional Review Board.
Dr. Levine lists his areas of special expertise as abdominal cavity cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy, all types of breast cancer, carcinoma, colon cancer, cancer of the esophagus, gastrointestinal cancer, adenocarcinoma, sarcoma, melanoma, pancreatic diseases, soft tissue cancer, and stomach cancer.
He has been named one of America's Top Doctors for 2008 and 2009, one of America's Top Doctors for Cancer for the years 2005 through 2007, and received the Patients' Choice Award in 2009. He is a member of the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association and a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Dr. Levine has authored more than 130 book chapters and articles, and is affiliated with two hospitals in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals and the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.