Today, Justin Beamis sits down with Dr. Benjamin Levi, M.D. to discuss his life, his research, and the incredible work he and his team at U.T. Southwest Medical are doing with the donations made by everyone who supports Sons of the Flag!

Benjamin Levi, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He holds the Dr. Lee Hudson-Robert R. Penn Chair in Surgery and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and serves as Division Chief of Burn, Trauma, Acute and Critical Care Surgery. He specializes in acute and reconstructive burn surgery and scar reconstructive surgery.

He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, including high-impact papers in Science Translational Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Communications, as well as chapters in a number of textbooks, including Greenfield’s Surgery, Total Burn Care, Grabb and Smith’s Plastic Surgery, and Trauma. He has delivered presentations worldwide, held numerous invited professorships, and serves as a permanent editor and ad hoc editor for journals in his area of research.

Dr. Levi co-chairs the Reconstructive Special Interest Group of the American Burn Association. He is also a member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Reed O. Dingman Society, and the Plastic Surgery Research Council.

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