Curriculum Vitae
- Name:
- Joseph Levine
- Degree:
- Associate Professor (Emeritus), Ben Gurion University
- Faculty:
- Health Sciences
- Department:
- Psychiatry
- Date and Place of Birth:
- 15 / Jan / 1951 , Israel
A. Education
- 1982
- Tel-Aviv University, MD.
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Motor cycling behavior in rat model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (grade – 10).
Name of Supervisor: Prof. A.D. Korczyn: Sourasky Medical Center & Tel-Aviv School of Medicine. - 1985
- Tel-Aviv University, MA.Sci. in Physiology–Pharmacology (Cum Laude).
Title of Dissertation: Physostigmine treatment of electroconvulsive induced memory disturbances.
Name of Supervisor: Prof. A.D. Korczyn: Sourasky Medical Center & Tel-Aviv School of Medicine.
B. Further Studies
- 1980-1985
- Tel-Aviv University school of psychotherapy (3 years of studies and training in psychotherapy).
Tel-Aviv University school of psychotherapy (2 more years of advanced studies in family therapy). - 1990-1992
- Senior Medical Administrative Certificate, administered by Post Graduate Institute of Education of Kupat Holim.
C. Academic Experience
- 1992
- Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ben Gurion University.
- 1994
- Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University.
- 1996
- Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ben Gurion University.
- 1997-2000
- Visiting Researcher, Stanley Center for the Research of Bipolar Illness and the Neurophysics Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- 2002-
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Ben Gurion University.
- 2017-2018
- A sabbatical period of several months in Prof. Galila Agam's Neurobiology Laboratory for Psychiatric Disorders in the Be'er Sheva Mental Health Center.
- 2018-2019
- A one-year sabbatical at the Neuroscientific Laboratory of Prof. Illana Gozes at Tel Aviv University.
D. Clinical Experience And Professional Training
- 1981-1986
- Psychiatric Residency, Shalvata Mental Health Center.
- 1986-1991
- Acting Deputy Director of the Closed Psychiatric Ward, Shalvata Mental Health Center.
- 1992
- Director of Psychiatric Ward, Beersheva Mental Health Center.
- 1994-1996
- Director of Psychiatric Ward, Abarbanel Mental Health Center.
- 1994
- Examiner – Israeli Board Qualifying Examinations in Psychiatry.
- 1995
- Reviewer of grant applications, Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of Health.
- 2000-2002
- Director of closed forensic and inpatient male psychiatric ward, Beersheva Mental Health Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
- 2002-2004
- Director of closed inpatient female psychiatric ward, Beersheva Mental Health Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
- 2004-2005
- Director of open psychiatric ward, Nes-Zionna Mental Health Center, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2003 –
- Member, Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Health Grant Review Committee.
- 2004
- Member, International Scientific Committee, 5-th International Congress of Neuropsychiatry, 14-18 October 2004, Athens, Greece.
- 2004 –
- Member, Iraeli Medical Association, Committee for recognition of psychiatric wards for residency.
- 2005 –
- Director of psychiatric ward, Beersheva Mental Health Center, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Prof. Joseph Levine, M.D. is an emeritus associate professor in the Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University in Israel. Prof. Levine is a certified psychiatrist with clinical experience in controlled trials of adult psychiatric disorders and in psychotherapy. He was awarded a NRSAD independent investigator grant for the study of Creatine Monohydrate in psychiatric disorders -- mainly Schizophrenia. He resides and treats patients in Tel Aviv and all of central Israel.