Jeff Levine
Jeff Levine, Senior Consultant, healthcare media
With a specialized background in broadcast news, communications and public relations, Mr. Levine has provided counsel to a number of the nation’s top pharmaceutical and biotech companies. From his pioneering work with CNN when the network went on the air to helping launch WebMD’s Internet information service, Mr. Levine has connected with visionary concepts that have become industry trends.
Specialties
Mr. Levine is equally comfortable developing a top-tier media strategy for drug products in development, doing media training or contacting reporters from national media organizations about breaking news. Some of Mr. Levine’s medical clients include: Wyeth, Genentech, Pfizer, Merck, Bausch & Lomb, Deloitte’s Center for Health Solutions
Credentials
Mr. Levine served as CNN’s Washington, DC medical correspondent as well as handling network bureau chief assignments in Israel and Chicago earlier in his career. During his tenure as WebMD’s Washington, DC bureau chief, Mr. Levine supervised coverage of health care and health care policy issues from genome mapping to Medicare funding. Mr. Levine has also been a senior media counselor at Hill & Knowlton, Ketchum and Porter Novelli.
Accomplishments
- Guest lecturer, University of Denver Institute for Public Policy Studies
- Served on Institute of Medicine committee reviewing CDC’s smallpox vaccination program
- Received award for coverage of genetics in broadcast presented by Nobel Laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
- Coordinated national media outreach for Genentech’s launch of Avastin, first in class colorectal cancer drug
- Provided strategic counsel for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guidebook for reporters covering bioterrorism
- Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley