Annie Levine, MD

Dr. Levine is a board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at the Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, RI and then went on to a three-year gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital.

After graduating from fellowship, she joined the faculty at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, where she sees patients with a broad range of gastrointestinal, hepatic, and pancreatic diseases. She specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). Her clinical skills include endoscopy, colonoscopy, capsule endoscopy, and intestinal ultrasound. Her research interests include genetic and epigenetic risk factors for IBD, health disparities in IBD, nutritional therapy and the microbiome, and prevention of venous thromboembolism. She is a member of the North American Society for Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition as well as the International Bowel Ultrasound Group.

Education

• Undergraduate: Harvard University
• Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Internship: Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital
• Residency: Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital
• Fellowship: University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital

Research Interests

• Inflammatory bowel disease, health disparities, genetics and epigenetics of inflammatory bowel disease