Researcher | Research Overview
Dr. Levin aims to utilize his background in biomedical informatics to study former preterm infants who have respiratory disease and to improve their care. Through the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research Training Program, he completed additional post-doctoral masters training at Harvard Medical School in Biomedical Informatics.
With this background, Dr. Levin serves in the role as co-chair for the data committee for the BPD collaborative, managing an international registry for this rare disease. He has lead work using the registry to predict tracheostomy in preterm infants using ventilator data at key points during the hospitalization, develop markers to track disease progression and improvement over the hospitalization, and evaluate which nutritional strategies lead to the best outcomes for these infants. Locally, Dr. Levin is part of the Boston Children's Hospital Preterm Lung Disease Registry and has conducted studies evaluating how care in the NICU impacts longer-term respiratory and developmental outcomes in this population.
Using data from these retrospective studies, Dr. Levin is currently funded to conduct a randomized crossover trial to study impact of postpyloric feeding on respiratory health in preterm infants at risk of lung disease.
Dr. Levin is also conducting work in remote patient monitoring in technology dependent infants and children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia who reside at home. In particular, he is interested in how remote data can improve how respiratory support is managed, and if signals in data can serve as early-warning signing for respiratory illnesses and allow earlier intervention to avoid hospitalization.
Researcher | Research Background
Dr. Levin is a dual trained neonatologist and pediatric pulmonologist. At Boston Children's, he is the director of the BPD program and co-director of the pulmonary home ventilator program. His focus is in the provision of longitudinal care for infants and children with neonatal lung diseases, including BPD, from their time in the NICU through discharge and into childhood. He is also the co-data chair of the BPD collaborative. His research interests include using data analytics to help predict outcomes in BPD and identifying optimal ventilatory and nutritional strategies to support healthy lung development.