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Scott Levin, MD

Hospital University of Penn
Philadelphia, PA, United States

L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS


L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, is the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, Former Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery). He is also the Director of the Penn Musculoskeletal and Rheumatology Service Line.

As an accomplished clinician, his expertise focuses on surgery of the hand and upper extremity, reconstructive microsurgical techniques for extremity reconstruction and limb salvage. His research interests focus predominantly on extremity soft tissue reconstruction and vascularized composite allotransplantation.

Dr. Levin heads the Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program at Penn and directed the teams that performed bilateral hand and arm transplants in three adults. In 2015, as Director of the Pediatric Hand Transplantation Program of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he led the team that performed the world’s first bilateral hand transplant in a child.

Dr. Levin also actively participates in senior leadership activities of many international and national professional societies and associations.

Dr. Levin is responsible for developing the field of “Orthoplastic Surgery” and currently is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Orthoplastic Surgery (Elsevier.)

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