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CDR Ross Stewart Levine, M.D. Dr. Levine was born and raised in Colorado. Following one year at Colorado State University he moved to San Diego where he graduated from San Diego State University with a B.S. in Biology. He then moved to New York City where he obtained his M.D. degree from Cornell University. Having funded his studies with a U.S. Navy scholarship he began his naval career with a Transitional Internship at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD. He continued his training at the Naval Undersea Medical Institute in Groton, CT during which he completed the Diving Medical Officer course at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center, qualifying as a U.S. Navy Deep Sea Diver. After graduating from NUMI he completed two tours as a Navy Undersea and Diving Medical Officer. His first tour was on the Trident ballistic missile submarine USS ALASKA (SSBN 732) where he was a plank owner taking the submarine from new construction and trials through its first patrol and he received his qualifications as a Submarine Medical Officer. His second tour was as the Medical Officer for Submarine Squadron ONE in Pearl Harbor, HI. Dr. Levine returned to clinical medicine and post-graduate medical training with a Full Time Outservice Residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Washington Medical Centers in Seattle, WA. This training was followed by three years as a staff anesthesiologist at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, CA and four years as Department Head of Anesthesiology and then Chief of Surgical Services at the United States Naval Hospital in Naples, Italy. After ten years of clinical anesthesia he was lured back into diving and operational medicine and is currently the Senior Medical Officer at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, FL. There his department is responsible for the medical care of diving casualties, routine medical care of students and staff, and teaching diving medicine. Dr. Levine is also responsible for selecting and ensuring the DMO coverage for all of the UNC/NOAA/NURC Aquarius Habitat missions. Dr. Levine is married to Marina Sensenhauser an Italian Speech Therapist who he rudely uprooted from her lifelong home and work in Naples, Italy. They live in Lynn Haven, FL with their two dogs, Jezzy and Sam, and Napolitan cat, Tomas. Dr. Levine is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and is pursuing Board Certification in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. |
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