Robert J. Levine was born in Wantagh, New York, on December 29, 1934. He graduated from Duke University, North Carolina, in 1954, and earned his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, in 1958. He was a surgeon with the United States Public Health Service, 1960-1964, and held numerous positions at Yale University School of Medicine including: assistant professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, 1965-1968, chief of the Section of Clinical Pharmacology, 1966-1974; associate professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, 1968-1973; director of the Physicians Associate Program, 1973-1975; chair of the Institutional Review Board at Yale-New Haven Medical Center, 1969-2000; director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Law, Policy and Ethics Core; and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, 2005-2007. Levine was the founding editor of IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research and has authored numerous publications, including Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research.
From the guide to the Robert J. Levine papers, 1953-2007, (Manuscripts and Archives)
