Dr. Levy is trained to treat a wide spectrum of pulmonary disease and also has specific expertise in treating sarcoidosis and other granulomatous lung diseases. He has spent much of his training and time in practice treating sarcoidosis and conducting research in this area.

Dr. Levy is interested in advancing our understanding of sarcoidosis through research and clinical care of patients. He is specifically interested in understanding lung fibrosis in sarcoidosis: which patients have lung scarring, how it progresses, and how it can best be treated. He is also interested in the interactions between ethnicity and manifestations of sarcoidosis.

Dr. Levy believes there is nothing more rewarding than being part of the journey of helping a patient back to good lung health. Developing a breathing problem can be scary, but Dr. Levy believes it is his privilege to help patients understand their illness and help them build a comprehensive treatment plan to get them back to living a healthy life.

Outside of work, Dr. Levy enjoys skiing, running, and playing basketball.

Volunteer Activities

Speaker, Foundation for Sarcoidosis and Research

Other Activities

Member, American Thoracic Society

Member, American Association of Sarcoidosis and other Granulomatous Disease

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Fellowship, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Denver, Colorado, 2018

Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2015

Residency, Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2014

MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2011

BA, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2005

BOARD CERTIFICATION

Critical Care Medicine

Pulmonary Medicine

Publications

Levy A, Hamzeh N, Maier LA. Is it time to scrap Scadding and adopt computed tomography for initial evaluation of sarcoidosis? F1000 Research. 2018 May 16; 7(F1000 Faculty Rev):600. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.11068.1.

Gany F, Levy A, Basu P, Misra S, Silberstein J, Bari S, Gill P, Keller N, Changrani J, Leng JC. J Health Care Poor Undeserved. May 2012.

Davidson K and Levy A. A Singular Clubbed Digit Indicating Sarcoidosis. Chest, San Antonio.  154(4):1068A.  October 2018.

McPherson K and Levy AK. The T-ruth Is in the Pleura: T-Cell Lymphoma in a Patient on Abatacept Diagnosed by Pleural Fluid Analysis. ATS San Diego, May 2018.

Levy AK, Richards C, Escalon J, Barkes B, Mroz P, Lynch DA, Hamzeh NY, Fingerlin TE, Maier LA. Fibrotic pulmonary sarcoidosis is associated with obstructive respiratory physiology and architectural distortion on computed tomography. A5363. ATS San Diego, May 2018.

Levy A, Jeong J, Lynch D, Hamzeh N, Rho J, Suh Y. Maier LA. Characteristics of CT-determined fibrotic pulmonary sarcoidosis. ATS Washington, D.C., May 2017.