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Dr. Levey is a researcher and pediatrician specializing in the medical care of children with severe developmental disabilities. He provides clinical services at the Kennedy Krieger Children’s Hospital in the Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy and Neurodevelopmental Medicine and the Center for Spina Bifida and Related Conditions. He is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also a provider in the Harriet Lane Primary Care Center for Children and Adolescents at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He limits his primary care practice to children with special health care needs.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Levey did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Economics and Natural Science. He graduated in 1989 and then stayed at Penn for medical school and graduated in 1993. He did his Residency in Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1993 until 1996. After residency, he did a Fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics through the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Since completing the fellowship in 1999, he has been working at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in the spina bifida and cerebral palsy programs. Current positions at Kennedy Krieger Institute include being the Medical Director of the Spina Bifida and Related Conditions Center, Medical Director of PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs, and Associate Medical Director of the Carter Center for Brain Research in Holoprosencephaly and Related Malformations He is on the Professional Advisory Committee of Johns Hopkins Pediatrics at Home, on the advisory board and consulting pediatrician to the Wald Community Nursing Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, and is Co-Chair of the Committee on Disabilities/CSHCN of the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He is also a member of the national AAP Committee on Children with Disabilities.
Dr. Levey is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, Society for Research in Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, and the American Medical Association.
Research Summary:
During his Fellowship, Dr. Levey examined the use of pediatric home home health care services in the State of Maryland using Medicaid claims data.
Dr. Levey is part of a team of Kennedy Krieger professionals participating in a Center of Excellence Grant project, supported by Children’s Medical Services of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. One component of the project was to develop recommendations for improving communication and coordination between health care, educational and community providers. Another component of the project is to develop guidelines for the care of individuals with spina bifida and cerebral palsy.
Dr. Levey also has an interest in health policy and developing systems of care for children with special health care needs.
Dr. Levey is now working with an interdisciplinary team of professionals at KKI on developing and refining recommendations for the role of the health care provider in the transition of adolescents with disabilities to adulthood.
As part of the Carter Center for Brain Research in Holoprosencephaly and Related Malformations, Dr. Levey is working with a group of scientists to study the epidemiology, clinical features, and neuroimaging characteristics of children with HPE. They are also using diffusion imaging (DTI) to study brains of children with cerebral palsy. | 