Research interests
Aging and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction[1]
Benjamin Levine
UT Southwestern · Current relationship
UT Southwestern · Current relationship
Benjamin Levine is a clinical and integrative physiologist whose work examines how the circulation adapts to exercise, deconditioning, aging, spaceflight, and high altitude. He directs the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine and practices sports cardiology.
His research spans exercise training, aging, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, spaceflight, altitude, cerebral blood flow, and fainting. His profile describes sustained research support from NIH and NASA and work as a consulting cardiologist for NASA and SpaceX.
Levine is a Professor of Internal Medicine and founding Director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine. His clinical work includes athletes with cardiovascular conditions and patients with syncope and orthostatic intolerance.
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Training includes UT Southwestern Medical Center (Cardiology), Shinshu University School of Medicine (Environmental Physiology), Stanford University (Internal Medicine), and Harvard Medical School (Medical degree), plus 3 more records.
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Aging and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction[1]
Bedrest and spaceflight[1]
Cardiovascular response to exercise training[1]
Cerebral flow and syncope[1]
High altitude research[1]
Orthostatic intolerance[1]
Sports cardiology[1]