Penn Medicine Radiology professor Marc Levine has received an Eminent Scientist of the Year Award 2006 from the International Research Promotion Council, based in India.
Levine, both a clinician and a researcher, received the award for his research in gastrointestinal radiology, a field in which he has co-authored and published about 300 pieces of literature.
The award goes to candidates whose research has significantly affected medical care on a global level and in developing nations.
Levine has been the chief of the gastrointestinal section of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's radiology department since 1998.
In 2004, he was appointed as an advisory dean in the School of Medicine.
Levine has received numerous other awards for his work in gastrointestinal radiology, and in 2004 he was named one of "America's Top Physicians" in by the Consumer Research Council of America. In 2003, he was honored with the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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