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Peter J. Levin, a Healthcare consultant, was Dean of the School of Public Health at the University at Albany (SUNY) from July 2001 to August 2006 and Principle Investigator of the CDC $5M Center for Public Health Preparedness. Prior to this appointment, he served four years as Health Policy Counsel to Senator Connie Mack (FL-R) responsible for issues relating to biomedical research, cancer, academic medical centers, long term care, managed care and Medicare. He was founding Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida from 1984-94 and Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma from 1982-84. Gov. Bob Graham (D-FL) appointed him to chair the Florida Hospital Cost Containment Board which approved all hospital budgets.
He chaired the Commission that created a plan to care for the uninsured in Hillsborough County (Tampa) and won the JFK School-Ford Foundation prize as the most innovative initiative by local government in 1994. He was a member of the board of directors of the billion dollar Allegany Health System based in Tampa and the two billion dollar SMS System in St. Louis which later won the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. He was on the board of the largest HMO in NYC, HIP. In the early 1990's he was on the board of a $30M IPO, CliniCorp, listed on NASDAQ and a "Florida IPO of the Year."
He was Associate Vice-President and Executive Director of the Stanford University Medical Center from 1977-81 leading it to its' most profitable years and Associate Commissioner for program analysis and planning of the New York City Department of Health from 1974-77. He is a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queens U. (Canada) and a graduate of Harvard College with public health degrees from Yale and Johns Hopkins.
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