Rachel Levine, MD. Chair of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority.
As the physician general of Pennsylvania, Dr. Levine heads up the safety authority and advises the governor on public health matters and policy. The PPSA works to reduce or eliminate medical errors by finding problems in the system and suggesting solutions, and the group releases several reports each year that contribute to that mission. Dr. Levine is also a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. She graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 1979 and the New Orleans-based Tulane University School of Medicine in 1983. Dr. Levine has lectured internationally and published articles on the topics of adolescent medicine, eating disorders and transgender medicine.