Provincial Executive Director, Cardiac Services BC,
Provincial Health Services Authority
www.phsa.ca
Dr Levin is currently a Professor of Medicine at University of BC, and Co-director of the Clinical Investigator Program at UBC. She is the Executive director of the BC Provincial Renal Agency, an organization which manages and co-ordinates the care of patients with kidney disease in the province of BC, and which has developed and maintained the provincial registry for renal patients.
She is the Chair of Curriculum Committee for the National KRESCENT (Kidney Research and Education SCientist EducatioN Training program). In addition she is outgoing Chair of the NKF KDOQI guideline process, and is on the Board of Directors and Executive committee of the newly formed KDIGO, an international group providing collaborative structure for outcomes research and guideline development in CKD.
Her research and clinical activities focus on chronic kidney disease, co morbidities associated with CKD, mechanisms of disease and health outcomes research. She is active in mentoring young investigators in kidney related research, and holds numerous grants for clinical studies. She has received funding from CIHR ( NET Grant), Kidney Foundation of Canada, and is the principal investigator on a number of studies funded by industry but designed and developed by investigators. She was awarded a team planning grant from Michael Smith Foundation to develop a research strategy for the study of complex patients (INTEGRATION), and most recently a Health Innovation Fund Grant from the Ministry of Health, British Columbia for $6 million to develop and evaluate a model of coordinated specialist care for complex patients.
