01/02/2023    

AT THE COLLEGES

Louis L. Levine, President and CEO of NYCPM, Dies at 95

 

Louis L. Levine, 95, President and CEO of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine (NYCPM), died on December 23rd. Levine has been President and Chief Executive Officer of NYCPM since 1991. Prior to his selection by NYCPM’s Board of Trustees, he was Corporate Vice-President for Governmental and Public Affairs at Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield, from 1980 to 1991. In March 1976, he became Chairman of the Executive Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Group Health, Inc., serving until 1979.

 

Louis Levine

 

From 1966 to 1976, Mr. Levine served as Commissioner of Labor Affairs and as Industrial Commissioner of New York State under Governors Nelson Rockefeller, Malcolm Wilson, and Hugh Carey. Mr. Levine served in the U.S. armed forces for more than four decades, first in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and then in the U.S. Army Reserve, from which he retired in 1987 as a Lt. Colonel. In 2022, President Levine was inducted into the Podiatry Management Hall of Fame and received its Lifetime Achievement Award.