Phil Levy

 

Phillip D. Levy, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP, FAHA, FACC

Edward S. Thomas Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Vice President for Population Health and Translational Sciences, Wayne State University; Director, Mobile Health Unit Program; Wayne Health, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI – USA); Serves as Associate Vice President for Translational Sciences. Dr. Levy is also Director of the Wayne Health Mobile Unit Program, which he founded in April 2020. A fellow of multiple professional societies including the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Levy is a leading health equity researcher with a focus on cardiovascular disease risk reduction who has overseen more than 110 funded studies from various entities since his arrival at Wayne State in 2002 including current grant support from the NIH, CDC, and American Heart Association. In addition to the delivery of acute and emergent care, Dr. Levy brings extensive expertise in deep community phenotyping using PHOENIX, an integrated, multidimensional virtual data warehouse he developed that includes embedded geospatial visualization and analytics. Leveraging PHOENIX, Dr. Levy has been at the forefront of design and execution of targeted intervention programs, including the Wayne Mobile Health Unit program and the Michigan Mobile Health Corps, both of which bring barrier free access to prevention care to at-risk communities with linkage to remote clinical and social support services using mobile engagement. Beyond this, Dr. Levy is a leading figure in the hospital-based quality improvement world, serving as the Inaugural Chair for American College of Cardiology’s Accreditation Oversight Committee, a member of the College’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry Oversight Committee, and Vice Chair for the recently published AHA/ACC Guideline for Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain.