Rate Professor L. Scott Levin

Academic Profile

Academic Background: MD (specific institution and year not publicly specified).

Research Interests: Orthopaedic surgery, vascularized composite allotransplantation, and pediatric hand transplantation.

Appointments: Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery and Professor of Plastic Surgery at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Chair of Penn Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of its Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program. Head of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Hand Transplantation Program.

Awards: Chair of the board of regents of the American College of Surgeons.

Additional Contributions: Performed the world's first bilateral hand transplant for a child in 2015.