Richard M. Levitan

Richard Mark Levitan is an American emergency medicine physician and businessperson. He is a clinical professor of medicine at Dartmouth College and a practicing physician at the Littleton Regional Hospital. He also runs a company that creates materials and runs events to teach emergency airway management.

Early life and education Levitan was born to Minna Osinoff and Milton Levitan in New York City. then completed a medical degree at New York University School of Medicine in 1994. He completed an internship and residency at Bellevue Hospital under .

Career and research After his residency, Levitan practiced in Philadelphia where he taught how to in perform intubations. which his Airway Cam company now promotes. Levitan is a clinical professor of medicine at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine.

COVID-19 In April 2020, Levitan volunteered for 10 days to help treat patients with COVID-19 at the emergency room of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. other doctors cautioned that early detection might lead to overtreatment, and that the role of early detection of hypoxia in treating COVID-19 still needed to be studied. Levitan's hypothesis was supported by a prospective study appearing some months later in Academic Emergency Medicine, for which Levitan was invited to write an accompanying piece of commentary.

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