Biography
Benjamin Levi, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He holds the Dr. Lee Hudson-Robert R. Penn Chair in 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.
Dr. Levi earned his medical degree at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed a residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital. He received advanced training through a research fellowship in pediatric regenerative medicine at Stanford University and a clinical fellowship in surgical critical care and burn surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospitals for Children – Boston.
Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, Dr. Levi joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2020. Previously, he was Director of the Burn/Wound and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory and Associate Director of Burn Surgery Service at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Levi’s research interests, which are funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American College of Surgeons, and the Department of Defense, include stem cell biology, heterotopic ossification, muscle fibrosis, tissue regeneration, wound healing and repair, and burn reconstruction outcomes.
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.
