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Frances R. Levin, MD

Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
New York, New York

Frances Rudnick Levin, MD is the Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Chief of the Division on Substance Use Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Levin graduated from Weill Medical College-Cornell University, completed her psychiatric residency at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) and then she graduated from a 2-year combined clinical/research fellowship at the University of Maryland and the Addiction Research Center at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). For 22 years, she served as the Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Residency at NYPH and for 19 years, she has been the Director of a T32 NIDA-funded Translational Clinical Research Fellowship. Dr. Levin, working with Columbia University faculty, inaugurated the university-wide Center for Healing of Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders (CHOSEN) in 2020 and is one of the senior Directors. A critical mission of this Center is to address addiction treatment inequities among minority populations. Dr. Levin is also the Principal Investigator of several NIH grants and is the Medical Director of two SAMHSA-supported grants, the Providers Clinical Support System and the Opioid Response Network which focuses on providing education, mentoring and technical assistance in the areas of prevention, treatment, and recovery. She is dedicated to encouraging addiction training of underrepresented minority predoctoral students through her involvement with a NIDA R25 TRACC (Translational Research Training in Addiction in Underrepresented Groups) and support of a summer training in addictions with CUNY underrepresented minority premedical students.

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