Dr. David M. Levine, a retired Johns Hopkins professor of medicine who worked to prevent heart disease in the East Baltimore community, died of a heart infection Nov.
5 at Gilchrist Center Towson. The Mount Washington resident was 86. Born in Boston, he was the son of Samuel Levine, a cattle farmer who owned a New Hampshire general store, and his wife, Celia Sroelov.
He graduated from Boston’s Boys Latin School, Brandeis University, the University of Vermont and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed a residency at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh and the Waltham Hospital in Boston. He served in the Army from 1965 to 1968 and was stationed at the Seoul Military Hospital.
While working at a Montefiore Hospital as a recent medical school graduate, he met a patient who suggested he meet the patient’s cousin. Through that connection, he met his future wife, Diane Browarsky. They married in 1965.
He also completed a preventive medicine residency and earned a Master of Public Health and Doctor of Science at Johns Hopkins. He joined the faculty in 1972 at the School of Hygiene and Public Health in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, according to a Johns Hopkins biographical sketch. A Johns Hopkins statement said Dr.
Levine did “pioneering work” in community-based participatory research that helped address health disparities, notably in cardiovascular disease. “He served the medical needs of those who lived in East Baltimore,” his wife said. “He spent ti.
