S. Robert Levine, MD

(Chairman and Co-founder)

S. Robert Levine is a recognized leader in the health and non-profit sector. He has served in numerous leadership and board positions with major health and public purpose organizations, where he has helped lead major capital raising, program development and advocacy initiatives. Dr. Levine served multiple terms on the International Board and Executive Committee of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) the world’s largest private non-profit funder of diabetes research ($100 million per year). As a Board member, Dr. Levine led values consistent, goal driven program innovation in multiple areas. He Chaired JDRF’s Government Relations Committee, Clinical Affairs Advisory, and its Communications Committee. He developed JDRF’s top-line advocacy strategy and grass-roots training, and led JDRF’s research program design, and brand identification initiatives. As Chairman of its Board of Chancellors, Dr. Levine created JDRF’s new staff acculturation orientation program, and conceived JDRF’s “cyber-volunteer” and “on-line diabetes support team” initiatives.

He has also served on the boards of the Center for the Advancement of Health, the Foundation for Accountability, the New York City Police Foundation, Literacy Partners, Inc, and the Off-Center Ballet. Since 1997, Dr. Levine has served as Chairman of the Progressive Policy Institute’s “Health Priorities Project.” Dr. Levine served as a consultant to the Congressionally mandated Diabetes Research Working Group and as a member of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ Council.

Dr. Levine has been a founder, investor and board member of several early-stage health and technology corporations. He received his BS in Human Development and Nutrition from Cornell University in 1975, and graduated summa cum laude from Chicago’s Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in 1979. He completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City (MSMC) where he became Founding Director of MSMC’s Cardiac Health and Rehabilitation Program.