Cheryl Levitt, McMaster University
Family Medicine
Professor
Hamilton, Ontario
clevitt@mcmaster.ca
Office:
(905) 379-3874
(905) 525-9140 ext. 28500
Bio/Research
Dr. Cheryl Levitt is a family physician and a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. She was born in South Africa, trained at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and did her internship at Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto. She left South Africa in 1977...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Cheryl Levitt is a family physician and a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. She was born in South Africa, trained at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and did her internship at Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto. She left South Africa in 1977 for Canada and practiced rurally in British Columbia from 1977-1984. Dr. Levitt has been an academic family physician since 1984 at McGill and McMaster Universities. Dr. Levitt was appointed in 2012 as the College of Family Physician of Canada Senior Research Advisor and in 2011 as a member of the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 2008 - 2011, she was the Provincial Primary Care Lead for Cancer Care Ontario. She was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University from 1996-2006 and President of the Ontario College of Family Medicine from 2005-2006. She has lead the Quality in Family Practice project from 2000 ñ 2009 and published the Quality in Family Practice Book of Tools in 2010. Dr. Levitt has published widely on primary care issues, medical migration of foreign doctors, gender equity and maternal and child health. She has received a number of awards amongst which she was awarded the South African Women for Women HEALTH Award in 2004, the Wonca (World Organization of Family Doctors) Fellowship Award in 2010, the Jean Pierre Depins award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2010 and the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Health Wellness for the City of Hamilton in 2011. Dr. Levitt enjoys mentoring young people: she has supervised undergraduate students, medical students and residents sharing her work in family medicine, leadership and research.
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