Faculty Biography

Sharon Levine, MD

  Associate Executive Medical Director
The Permanente Medical Group


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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