Glenn K. Levine
Biography
Glenn K. Levine, M.D., F.A.A.P., is Professor of Pediatrics Health Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and an attending physician in Pediatric Critical Care at Miller Children's and Women's Hospital in Long Beach, California. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas in 1998 and completed his fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Levine is board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Levine has held numerous administrative positions at Miller Children's and Women's Hospital and Memorial Care, including Chief of Staff for the Pediatrics Division from 2020 to 2024 and Chair of the Memorial Care Systemwide Formula Committee since 2024. He has served as Chairperson of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at Miller Children's and Women's Hospital since 2006 and previously chaired the Best Practices Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for Memorial Care from 2008 to 2017. He was an elected member of the Memorial Care Physician Society Board from 2011 to 2023, serving as Secretary from 2019 to 2023.
Levine has been Director of Resident Education in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Miller Children's Hospital since 2005, where he provides weekly didactic lectures, conducts mock code instruction, and serves as a resident mentor. His research has focused on acute lung injury, mechanical ventilation, and sepsis in critically ill children, including work on alveolar epithelial cell vulnerability to mechanical stretch following septic injury. He has participated as a co-primary investigator or site investigator in multiple multi-center studies examining glycemic control, plasma transfusions, and nutritional interventions in pediatric critical care patients.
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- B.S. in Physiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993
- M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, 1998
Distinctions
- Munzer Award of Excellence in Teaching and Research, Long Beach Memorial, 2024
- Educational Scholarship Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2004
- Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2004
- Simply Better Award, Miller Children's Hospital, 2024
- UCI/CHOC/Miller Children's Pediatric Residency Director's Award, 2018
- UCI/Miller Children's Pediatric Residency Director's Award, 2008, 2014
- Cum Laude, University of California Los Angeles, 1993
- Golden Key Honor Society, 1993
- Southwestern Medical Foundation Academic Achievement Scholarship, 1994-1998
Areas of Expertise
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Mechanical Ventilation Lung Injury
- Sepsis-Induced Alveolar Epithelial Damage
- High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation
- Glycemic Control in Respiratory Failure
- Plasma Transfusion in Children
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis Severity Factors
Recent Publications
- Fathi A., Levine G., Hicks R., Morphew T., Babbitt C., “Has Variable Access to Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Severity of Paediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis?”, Practical Diabetes, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 17-22, 2022.
- Levine G., Datta S., Babbitt C., “Infections and Asthma in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Prevalence and Contribution to Disease Severity”, Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 44-48, 2016.
- Karam, “Indications and Effects of Plasma Transfusions in Critically Ill Children”, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 191, no. 12, pp. 1395-1402, 2015.
- Babbitt C., Lake J., Levine G., “Use of Dexmedetomidine as Adjunctive Therapy for anti NMDA Receptor Encephalitis”, Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 143-145, 2013.
- Babbitt C., Cooper M., Nussbaum E., Liao E., Levine G., Randhawa I., “High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in Pediatric Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: Disease-Specific Morbidity Survival Analysis”, Lung, vol. 190, pp. 685-690, 2012.
- Levine G., Deutschman C., Helfaer M., Margulies S., “Sepsis-induced lung injury in Rats Increases Alveolar Epithelial Vulnerability to Stretch”, Critical Care Medicine, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1746-1751, 2006.
- Priestley M., Levine G., Litman R., “Respiratory Acidosis”, E-Medicine, 2003.
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Last updated on 3/7/2026.