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E. Levine, MD

Edward A. Levine, MD., FACS Professor of Surgery Chief, Surgical Oncology Service   Publications He is 1 of 4 faculty members of the Surgical Oncology Service.  He received his medical degree at the Chicago Medical School in 1985. His residency in general surgery was as the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.  He subsequently completed a surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Illinois 1990-1992. After his surgical training, Dr. Levine joined the faculty at Louisiana State University in New Orleans where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997.  He joined the Wake Forest University faculty in August 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2002. He has published over 100 scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Levine's clinical interests are related to general surgical oncology with a focus melanoma, sarcoma breast and gastrointestinal malignancy.  He is Director of the Surgical Oncology Clinics in the Comprehensive Cancer Center, the multimodality breast clinic and the surgical oncology Conference (“Tumor Board”) for the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Levine is a member of the Internal Advisory Board of the Cancer Center. Dr. Levine is the principal investigator for approximately 20 current clinical/translational protocols and is committed to clinical/translational research.  These involve the National Surgical Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) and the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) for which he is the institutional principal investigator.  He is also the leader of the Wake Forest University program of Cytoreductive Surgery and Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis, which is the second largest such program in the western hemisphere (click here to view webcast of procedure). He is also the recipient of grants from the National Cancer Institute, Industry, and Cancer Center funding translational research involving the genomic analysis of solid tumors. Besides his administrative and teaching duties involving the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Surgical Oncology Service, Dr. Levine also serves on the Institutional Review Board, the Breast and Colorectal committees of the NSABP and is the Cancer Liaison Physician for the Wake Forest University/North Carolina Baptist hospital to the American College of Surgeons.     Referrals Benefits Winston-Salem