Consulting & Education
Dr. Levine is part of the teaching program for geriatric fellows in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He authored the Pressure Injuries and Wound Care chapter in the Geriatrics Review Syllabus (GRS9 and GRS10) for the American Geriatrics Society, and was a contributing author for the American Medical Directors Association’s Clinical Practice Guideline for Pressure Ulcers.
Dr. Levine is an alumnus of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP), an organization that serves as the authoritative voice for improved patient outcomes in pressure ulcer prevention and treatment through public policy, education, and research. He served as Co-Chair of the Education Committee that put together the successful NPUAP Biennial Meeting in New Orleans, March 2017.
Among his many consulting appointments, he participated in the New York State Gold STAMP Advisory Committee to assist in developing and implementing cross-setting collaboratives with hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies to reduce the incidence and prevalence of pressure ulcers, and assisted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the roll-out of revised Section M-Skin Condition of MDS 3.0.
ARCHIVED WEBINARS:
Wound Care: Maximizing Quality While Controlling Cost
When Cure is Not the Goal: Palliative Care for Chronic Wounds
Infectious Aspect of Chronic Wounds, including Infection Control
History of Pressure Ulcers and Wound Care: Past, Present, & Future
Unavoidable Pressure Injuries, Terminal Ulceration & Skin Failure: Where were we, where are we and where are we going?
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Pressure Injuries Expanded by CMS as Indicators of Hospital Harm
Sep 28, 2019
CMS has implemented a new quality measure for hospitals that expands the array of pressure injuries considered as adversely impacting quality care. The new measure, developed in a program to provide electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), widens the scope of... read more -
Terminal Ulcer Terminology Reconsidered
Sep 3, 2019
My new article in Wound Management & Prevention is a critical re-examination of terminal ulcer terminology. In it I make the case for recognizing terminal ulcers as part of the spectrum of skin failure (and not necessarily heralding death) and used only in... read more -
Geriatric Medicine Recertification Completed
Jun 5, 2019
I am happy to announce that I passed the test. I am referring to the geriatrics examination given by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). This means that I am recertified as a Board Certified Specialist in Geriatric Medicine. Recertification is required... read more -
Art, Dementia, and Elder Abuse: The Sad Story of Peter Max
Jun 3, 2019
Back in high school I was a big fan of Peter Max. His work was everywhere – on the cover of Life Magazine, on album covers for The Beatles, and on psychedelic day-glow posters at the head shop on Journal Square in Jersey City, the town where I grew up. I remember... read more -
Wound Care Research at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting
May 9, 2019
I just returned from the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, where parts of my wound care research were presented as a poster. My co-author was geriatrician-in-training Dr. Rikitha Menezes, who participated in data collection. Rikitha came... read more -
Wound Care Boot Camp at the AMDA/PALTC Annual Meeting
Mar 10, 2019
Many times I’ve been asked to provide a lecture on wound care with an allotted time of 45 minutes to one hour. The reality is that wound care is so complex that one hour will provide only a superficial overview which may not serve many front-line clinicians. This... read more -
Is the Pressure Injury Staging System Obsolete?
Feb 5, 2019
When I began researching my article in the March 2019 issue of Advances in Skin and Wound Care entitled Historical Perspective on Pressure Injury Classification: The Legacy of J. Darrel Shea, I did not intend to critique the staging system. I simply wanted insight... read more -
Cigarette Packaging in Italy
Feb 3, 2019
On a recent trip to Italy I was amazed when I saw these pictures on packs of cigarettes. If this isn’t enough to scare a smoker away from these nicotine delivery devices, I don’t know what will. For the benefit of my readers I am reproducing what I think is the... read more -
Serge Voronoff and the History of Wound Care at the New York Academy of Medicine
Jan 10, 2019
Join me at the New York Academy of Medicine for the Tenth Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night on Wednesday evening, January 30th, when I present my paper entitled Organotherapy, Gilded Manhattan, and Wound Healing Research in the Early 20th Century.... read more -
Wound Care Webinar Sponsored by The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
Sep 29, 2018
On Wednesday, October 24th I had the honor of delivering a webinar entitled Wound Care: Maximizing Quality While Controlling Costs, sponsored by The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. The webinar will begin at 7:00 EST and last 1.5 hours. I will be... read more -
Wound Care in the Geriatrics Review Syllabus
Sep 24, 2018
The 10th Edition of the Geriatrics Review Syllabus is soon going to press, and I am pleased to announce that I authored the revised Pressure Injury and Wound Care chapter. This chapter covers much of the material I wrote in the 9th Edition, but has critical updates... read more -
Pressure Injuries and the Human Warranty
Sep 16, 2018
In this post I will discuss two recent articles that together make the case that pressure injuries might be a manifestation of a human biological warranty. The first is Unavoidable Pressure Injury: State of the Science and Consensus Outcomes, published in the Journal... read more -
Prime Time Television, Disease, and Death
Jun 23, 2018
I recently experienced the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance during a commercial on the evening world news. It was an advertisement promoting a diabetes medicine that showed people with diabetes at a barbecue, cooking and dancing. How different this was from my day... read more -
Upcoming Talks at SAWC
Jan 25, 2018
I am thrilled to announce that I will be presenting in two sessions at the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) which is going on from April 25 to 29, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. SAWC is a leading educational forum for interdisciplinary wound care... read more -
Webinar on Unavoidable Pressure Injuries, Terminal Ulceration, and Skin Failure
Nov 3, 2017
Please join me Thursday, November 16 from 3:00-4:00pm EDT for a free webinar presented by myself and Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, sponsored by the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP), entitled Unavoidable Pressure Injuries, Terminal Ulceration, and Skin... read more -
A Geriatrician Reviews Cicero’s “On Old Age”
Sep 25, 2017
As a geriatrician entering the twilight of my career, I look to the philosophers of my field for guidance on how to navigate my own later years. In addition to contemporary texts and journals I turned toward the ancients and discovered a gem in the writings of Cicero,... read more -
NPUAP Biennial to Host Panel on End-of-Life Ulcers & Skin Failure
Feb 3, 2017
I am pleased to announce that the 2017 National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) Biennial Conference entitled Pressure Injury: Advancing the Vision is hosting a panel of experts to discuss the terminology and evidence related to the important issue of end-of-life... read more -
Skin Failure: An Emerging Concept
Sep 25, 2016
This post is based on my article that recently appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Skin failure is an emerging concept that ties together current trends in clinical practice and deserves wider acceptance. Wound care providers have... read more -
Speaking of Art and Aging at MOMA
May 23, 2016
It was my pleasure and honor to speak today at the Museum of Modern Art in a lecture entitled “Picturing Aging: The View From a Geriatrician.” The talk presented my portfolio of images of aging, and discussed the relationship between art and growing old. It was... read more -
New Pressure Ulcer Chapter in the Geriatrics Review Syllabus
May 20, 2016
The Geriatrics Review Syllabus, 9th Edition, also known as GRS9, has been released and I am thrilled to be author of the newly revised and expanded chapter on Pressure Ulcers. The GRS9 is a comprehensive reference on geriatric medicine, a study guide for those... read more -
Pressure Ulcers are an Under-Appreciated Public Health Issue
Apr 9, 2016
As a geriatric fellow back in the 1980’s I became intrigued by the wide prevalence of pressure ulcers and how little literature there was on this disease. Three decades later, they have not gone away and it amazes me that they are not on the list of recognized... read more -
Recognizing the Incurable in Ancient Egypt
Mar 31, 2016
The art of medicine is as old as human civilization, and what we think is new has often been done before. When researching the history of wound care I came across an interesting historical antecedent to today’s palliative care practices. I found it in the library of... read more -
Infections Related to Pressure Ulcers are Always Serious
Feb 22, 2016
Infections related to pressure ulcers are always serious events because most patients with these wounds are already compromised, and open wounds provide a portal for pathogenic bacteria to enter the body. Reasons for compromise include immobility, neurologic... read more -
The Geriatric Workforce and Quality of Care
Feb 15, 2016
What could be less intuitive than a shrinking medical specialty in the face of surging demand? A recent New York Times article discussed the growing shortage of geriatricians in America. Despite the fact that there are more older Americans than any time in history,... read more -
Body Casts in WWII: A Historical Perspective on Medical Device Related Pressure Ulcers
Jan 9, 2016
Surgeons and medics apply a plaster-of-paris body cast on an injured soldier. Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library. During WWII, the incidence of pressure ulcers in young injured soldiers increased as a result of plaster body casts and immobilization... read more