Holding Someone Else’s Heart In My Hands
Tamar Levene, MD, a pediatric general surgeon at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital talks about why she became a surgeon and the importance of leaving a positive impact on the lives of patients and families.
Tamar Levene, MD is a board-certified physician in pediatric general surgery. She joined Memorial Physician Group and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital as a pediatric general surgeon in 2016.
Previously, Dr. Levene served as assistant professor of pediatric surgery and pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She was chief of pediatric surgery at Mount Sinai Roosevelt and co-director of surgical clerkship at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Levene earned her medical degree in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She finished a post-doctoral research fellowship in 2009 at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2012, she completed her residency in general surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She went on to complete a pediatric surgery clinical fellowship in 2014 at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
