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Susan Levenstein, MD
An
American internist living in Rome since 1978, Dr.
Levenstein follows an integrated approach to clinical
practice, balancing advanced medical science with
attention to psychological and social concerns.
She is also a researcher and lecturer on the interactions
between mind and body in organic disease.
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BOOK!
Messages
from Home: The Parent-Child Home Program for Overcoming
Educational Disadvantage, Revised and Updated Edition
by Phyllis Levenstein
and Susan Levenstein
Temple University Press, 2008

"Must
reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers"
- Edward Zigler, Ph.D.,
Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Yale University
"An
important resource for those interested in child development
and education."
- Teachers College Record
Five-minute
video
presentation
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Services
provided: general internal medicine, primary and preventive
health care for men and women, office gynecology (Pap smears,
infections, contraception, sexual counseling, menopause, etc.),
ECGs, pulmonary function testing, American (New York State)
prescriptions. |
Training:
- Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, Harvard University
- M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
- Internship and Residency in Social Internal Medicine, Residency
Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New
York
- Laurea in Medicine, La Sapienza University, Rome
- Tirocinio in Gastroenterology, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital,
Rome
- Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Current New York State medical license (#128023-1)
- Current Italian medical license (iscrizione all'Ordine dei
Medici di Roma e Provincia il 31-12-79, n. 28040) |
Hospital
affiliations: Salvator Mundi International Hospital,
Rome American Hospital, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital |
Languages
spoken fluently: English, Italian, French |
Watsu
(body work in water), Licensed Practitioner |
Scientific
Advisory Board, Parent-Child
Home Program |
Education/Program
Committees, American
Psychosomatic Society |
Editorial
Board , Psychosomatic
Medicine |
Curriculum
Vitae |
Selected
writings: |
The
evidence for treatments for somatoform disorders: A view
from the trenches (Somatic Presentations of Mental
Disorders, 2008)
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The
Role of Stress in the Development and Clinical Course
of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Epidemiological Evidence
(Current Molecular Medicine, 2008)
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Sexual
Issues in the Menopause (Our Bodies Our Selves, 2006)
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Embracing
complexity: what determines quality of life in inflammatory
bowel disease? (Eur J Gastro Hepatol, 2004)
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Peptic
Ulcer and Stress (Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior,
2004)
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Psychological
factors in Organic Gastrointestinal Disease. I. Inflammatory
Bowel Disease (Powerpoint presentation, 2004)
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Stress
and ulcerative colitis: Convincing the doubting Thomases.(Am
J Gastro, 2003)
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Peptic
ulcer and its discontents (Int'l J Epidemiology, 2002)
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Psychosocial
factors in peptic ulcer and inflammatory bowel disease
(J Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2002)
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First
grade school readiness of former child participants in...the
Parent–Child Home Program (J Applied Developmental
Psychology, 2002)
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Psychosocial
Predictors of Hypertension (Arch Int Medicine, 2001)
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Stress
and exacerbation in ulcerative colitis (Amer J Gastroent,
2000)
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The
very model of a modern etiology: A biopsychosocial view
of peptic ulcer (Psychosomatic Medicine, 2000)
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Stress
and peptic ulcer disease (JAMA, 1999)
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Stress
and peptic ulcer: Life beyond Helicobacter (BMJ, 1998)
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Long-term
Impact of a Verbal Interaction Program for At-Risk Toddlers
(J Applied Developmental Psychology, 1998)
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Is
There Health in Wellness? (J Clinical Gastroenterol,
1996)
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Psychologic
predictors of ulcer healing (J Clinical Gastro, 1996) |
Development
of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (J Psychosom
Res, 1993)
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Low
residue or normal diet in Crohn's disease (Gut, 1985) |
Email:

(but the best place to send most email communications
is to info@aventinomedicalgroup.com for screening by Mariateresa)
Home phone - for
emergencies - 06 4880389
Office hours: Monday through Thursday afternoons,
Wednesday morning and afternoon, some Friday mornings
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Via
Sant'Alberto Magno, 5 - 00153 Rome, Italy
tél./fax (+39) 06 57288349, 06 5780738
hours: Monday-Friday 9 AM - 7:30 PM
email: info@aventinomedicalgroup.com
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