Chair Surgical Oncology
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Edward A. Levine, M.D., FACS
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Surgical Oncology
Wake Forest University
Edward A. Levine is Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Surgical Oncology Service at Wake Forest University. He joined the faculty at Wake Forest in 1998 after being a faculty member at LSU-New Orleans for 6 years. His general surgery training was at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago followed by surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Illinois. He was promoted to Professor and Chief of Surgical Oncology in 2002. He is the founding director of the Surgical Oncology Clinics; Chair of the Hospital Cancer Committee, Deputy Director of the Oncology Service, site PI for the NRG (formerly the NSABP, RTOG and GOG) and senior advisor to the Director of the Cancer Center at Wake Forest University.
He has had grant funding since 1994, published over 350 scientific articles, book chapters and a book Intraperitoneal Cancer Therapy, Principles and Practice. Dr. Levine has a research focus on peritoneal metastasis and is the leader of the Wake Forest University program of cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic IntrapEritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) for peritoneal metastasis, which is one of the most experienced centers worldwide.