Background
A graduate of Wesleyan University and then New York University School of Medicine, Doctor Levin was born and raised in Philadelphia to working class parents—his father a carpenter, his mother a hospital worker
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Stephen M. Levin was the Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a Professor of Occupational Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the Company-Director of the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program.
Education
Wesleyan University; New York University School of Medicine.
Career
He was recognized world-wide as a leader in the field of Occupational Medicine, particularly due to his work on behalf of 9/11 workers and those injured by asbestos in the town of Libby, Montana. Doctor Levin was a 1967 graduate of the New York University School of Medicine. Doctor Levin then spent a decade practicing general medicine in the working class town of Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Following this formative experience, he came to Mount Sinai to receive his training in Occupational Medicine.
Following completion of his training, he joined the Mount Sinai faculty. He spent the remainder of his career at Mount Sinai, rose through the academic ranks and was promoted to full Professor in 2011.
Doctor Levin became Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Selikoff Center in 1987. He was active in the Occupational Medicine teaching program for medical students and residents.
His research interests focused on asbestos-related disease, other occupational lung diseases and heavy metal toxicity.
Doctor Levin served as a consultant to the New York State, New Jersey, and New York City Departments of Health on the health hazards of environmental pollutants. In the 1990s, Doctor Levin helped ensure that federal and New York State authorities required the provision of respirators and vacuum hoses to protect bridge workers from lead poisoning
The Salvagnos secretly co-owned a lab that produced 75,000 fraudulent laboratory analysis results on asbestos levels. Doctor Levin was one of the two primary investigators for a project on asbestos exposure among electrical power generation workers in Puerto Rico.
Doctor Levin was also the primary investigator for a project on Libby, Montana, a mining town where thousands of workers and residents had been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore.
Just days after the World Trade Center attacks, Doctor Levin and his colleagues started planning what would become the clinic for World Trade Center responders. Ninety percent of the 10,116 firefighters and other responders reported an acute cough within the first 48 hours, as a study the clinic put out three years later would document.
The clinic, which received more than $12 million from the government, has already screened and treated more than 20,000 workers, and released over a dozen studies. One 2006 study showed that approximately 30% of the patients screened (at that point, 12,000) suffered from chronic asthma and bronchitis, and 17% suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression.
Doctor Levin was instrumental in passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Acting.
This legislation is designed to ensure that the 911 first responders are provided with basic medical care needed as a result of their toxic exposures.
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February 7, 2012 (aged 70)