Interview with Samuel Levey, Phd, LFACHE, Gerhard Hartman Professor of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa (Interview) (Interview‪)‬

Currently the Gerhard Hartman Professor of Health Management and Policy at The University of Iowa, Dr. Samuel Levey, LFACHE, started his healthcare career in 1958 as an administrative associate at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Since then, he has served the healthcare field in various ways. He was the division director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (1963-1967), the assistant director of medical care planning at Harvard Medical School (1967-1968), and the deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare (1968-1969). While in these positions, he was also a lecturer at Harvard University's School of Public Health. Dr. Levey was a professor in and director of the graduate healthcare administration program at City University of New York (1969-1973) and professor of administrative medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1973-1977). His teaching credits at The University of Iowa's Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Administration (now the Department of Health Management and Policy) began in 1960, when he served as assistant professor, and resumed in 1977, when he became professor and head (until 1991) of the program.