Dr. Benjamin Levine is a Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and holds the Distinguished Professorship in Exercise Sciences. He joined the faculty in 1990, and since 1992 has directed the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine (IEEM), collaboration between UT Southwestern and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The IEEM is the largest human physiology clinical research program in the country. He is also founder of Parkland Memorial Hospital's Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic. Dr. Levine's research has focused on the effects of exercise aging and exercise training on the heart and blood vessels. He has also investigated the effects of long-duration space flight on the cardiovascular system. While completing a cardiology fellowship at UT Southwestern, he worked in the Space Medicine Laboratory headed by the late Dr. C. Gunnar Blomqvist.
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