Matthew Levy, M.D., M.P.H.

Public Health Officer
Prince George's County, Maryland

Fellowship Profile

Fellowship Year: 2010-2011
Fellowship Placement: Sen Conrad (D-ND)
Sponsoring Institution: Georgetown University

Biography

Dr. Levy has spent the last 20 years focusing his energies and talents on improving access to care for at-risk children. In 1999,
he became a Georgetown University Fellow in Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy. This two-year fellowship focused
on improving access to care, advocating for children's issues and finding creative solutions to complex problems. In 2000, Dr.
Levy took over as Medical Director of Community Pediatrics and re-built the program. Over the next 16 years, he developed
and operated the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic (a mobile medical home), the KMMC Community Mental Health Program (a
community-based mental health program), and the HOYA Clinic at DC General (the first student driven clinic in Washington,
DC), the Anacostia Wellness Center at Anacostia Senior High School, the KMMC Vision Program and the KMMC Mobile
Nutrition Program. He also served as the Director of the Fellowship in Community Pediatrics and Children Advocacy, the
Director of the Community Pediatrics component of the pediatric residency program, Director of the 3rd and 4th year medical
student community pediatrics electives, and was Co-Director of the Social Justice and Health Advocacy Curriculum at the
Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) from 2006-2010. This last program fostered social justice and advocacy
skills for medical students throughout their training. In 2012, Dr. Levy became Division Chief of Community Pediatrics. He was
a professor of clinical pediatrics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and a Faculty Mentor on the Population
Health Track.
Dr. Levy was a board member and treasurer of the DC Chapter of the AAP from 2003-2010. In 2006 and again in 2008, Dr.
Levy received distinguished service awards from the DC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He stepped down in
2010 because he was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship. During the fellowship he
worked with Senator Conrad and the Senate Budget committee on implementation of health reform and other health related
issues. From 2011 to 2014, he was an Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center working on a Physical Activity and Nutrition
Initiative which published a national report in 2012. Dr. Levy has dedicated his career to community pediatrics and has
worked closely with multiple governmental and non-governmental agencies to improve the lives of DC children. He has also
worked on population health system-based changes including a city-wide quality improvement initiative to better understand
the health of DC children. Dr. Levy has significant experience with Electronic Health Records (EHR) and their usage in
improving coordination of care for underserved families. While at MedStar and Georgetown University Hospital he sat on
several EHR committees to improve the systems across Georgetown and MedStar Health. From 2011-2016, Dr. Levy was the
Associate Medical Director of Ambulatory EHR and Health IT Policy for MedStar Health. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Levy moved
to Atlanta to be the Medical Director of the Children's Care Network (TCCN), which was the clinically integrated network of
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. There he led the Quality Strategy for the 1300 physician network. In 2021, Dr. Levy joined the
Medical College of Wisconsin faculty as a Professor, the Section Chief of to rebuild the Section General and Community
Pediatrics and the Ted D Kellner Endowed Professor of Pediatric. Dr. Levy received his B.A. from the University of Michigan, a
Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and is a member of the Delta Omega Honors Society.
He is a graduate of New York Medical College.