Susan Levit, M.D.

For over thirty years, Dr. Susan Levit has worked tirelessly to provide crucial medical services to the disadvantaged and underprivileged around the world. She embarked on this mission in Israel, where she completed medical school in November of 1974. Soon after completion of her medical degree, Dr. Levit served as a Captain in the Israeli Defense Force. She then moved to Nigeria, Africa, where she provided vital medical services to underprivileged patients from 1976 to 1977.

In 1977, Dr. Levit returned to Israel and worked in Rambam University Teaching Hospital. She could have started her own private medical practice, but instead returned to Africa in 1979 and continued providing medical services to the underprivileged for the next five years. In addition to her duties as physician at the General Hospital in Nigeria, Dr. Levit opened a clinic in her own home to provide free medical treatment to hundreds of people who otherwise did not have access to expensive hospitals or private clinics.

Eventually, Dr. Levit moved to America and completed her residency training program in internal medicine in 1991. Since completing her residency in 1991, Dr. Levit has diligently continued to provide critical medical services to the needy in Brooklyn, much as she did in Africa. She has been a frequent lecturer and community outreach leader in Brooklyn, providing information on medical issues to the Russian-speaking immigrant community. She has organized and conducted several outreach preventive programs for the elderly community, and has served as an American Cancer Society sponsor for victims of breast cancer. As a community leader, Dr. Levit has also served panels addressing the need for improving medical services in under-serviced communities such as Canarise and Starret City.

The level of respect for Dr. Levit in the community eventually rose to the point where she was enlisted to host a television program broadcast in the Russian community, during which she answered questions from callers. In April of 2003, Dr. Levit served as Co-Chair and Founder of the International Organization of Doctors Against Terrorism. In 2003 Dr. Levit was invited by Deputy Commissioner Louis Gelormino of the New York City Department of Probation to speak as a role for youths with legal troubles.

Dr. Levit has also earned and maintained in good standing several board certifications and licenses evidencing her fitness to practice medicine and her determination to achieve excellence, including: (i) American Board of Internal Medicine Certification; (ii) State University of New York Medical License; (iii) American College of Physicians membership since 1994; (iv) New York Medical Society membership since 1995; (v) Richmond County Medical society membership since 1995; and (vi) American Physical Partners Association membership since 2002. in 1999, at the annual meeting of the American College of Physician in Philadelphia, Dr. Levit was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), due to her distinguished teaching, research, and community activities. Currently, in addition to treating patients at her Brooklyn Clinic facilities, Dr. Levit is an associate attending Staff Physician at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

Dr. Levit’s service to the Brooklyn community has not gone unnoticed, and she has been honored with numerous awards recognizing her dedication to community service by a diverse group of significant individuals, public officials, and leaders in the community. In January of 2005, Dr. Levit was elected Vice President of World Congress of Russian Jewry. In 2004, Dr. Levit was named Russian Monthly Magazine’s Woman of the Year for her tireless efforts to provide critically-needed medical services to her Brooklyn community. As a Community leader in January 24, 2005 Dr. Levit was invited to attend the reception at the United Nations Headquarters commemorating 60 years since the liberation of the Death Camps in Europe. Dignitaries from all over the world were present and Mr. Elie Wiese, Nobel Prize Winner was a guest speaker.

In 2003, Dr. Levit was elected by the Jewish Community Relations Council to be the Russian community Leader in New York, She was also honored United States Senator Charles E. Schumer and State Senator Daniel Hevesi for her community service at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for her Levit Medical Arts Pavilion. In October of 2000, Dr. Levit was awarded a Commendation from State Comptroller Ala G. Hevesi for her “distinguished record of achievement as a physician, health educator and community activist.” In 1996 she received the Greater Canarsie Jewish Planning council’s Community Builders Award.

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