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Sharon Levine, MD
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Associate Executive Medical Director
The Permanente Medical Group
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Sharon Levine, MD, is a nationally respected expert and frequent speaker
on issues of health policy, drug use management, and the design and
delivery of health care services. As associate executive medical director
for The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California since 1991—the largest medical group in the country—she has responsibility
for the recruitment, compensation, clinical education, management
training, and leadership development for the group’s physicians;
government and community relations; health policy and external affairs;
and pharmacy policy and drug use management.
A board-certified pediatrician, Sharon has practiced with The Permanente
Medical Group since 1977. During that time she has held multiple
leadership roles, including chief of pediatrics, chief of quality,
and physician-in-charge of the Fremont Medical Center.
Sharon began her medical career at the Montgomery-Georgetown Pediatric
Comprehensive Care Clinic and Georgetown University Community Health
Plan. In addition, she has held academic appointments at Tufts University
School of Medicine and Georgetown University School of Medicine,
and spent two years as a clinical associate at the National Institutes
of Health, Institute of Child Health and Human Development, doing
research on infant nutrition.
A native of Boston, Sharon received her undergraduate degree from
Radcliffe College at Harvard University, and her medical degree from
Tufts University School of Medicine.
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