Roles
Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology
Division of Rhinology
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Biography
Dr. Corinna Levine is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami in the Division of Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgery.
Dr. Levine completed her medical training at Yale School of Medicine and went onto a seven- year Otolaryngology residency at the University of Washington with an in-folded Outcomes Research Fellowship and MPH. She completed fellowship in Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at the University of Miami. Dr. Levine is the joined the faculty as a surgeon-scientist and her clinical practice focuses exclusively on chronic sinusitis and endoscopic skull base surgery for benign and malignant sinonasal and orbital tumors and repair of skull defects. Dr. Levine is the Director of Clinical Rhinology Research. She is the recipient of several grants including the Triological Society Career Development Award and the University of Miami KL-2 Career development award. Her research focuses on improving CRS outcomes through precision medicine approaches to care and addressing CRS health disparities.
Dr. Levine is the former Director of Otolaryngology Resident Education at the University of Miami and continues to be committed to education and teaching as the Director the the Rhinology resident rotation and through clinical education of Rhinology fellows. She is very involved in clinical and research mentorship within her department and nationally. In addition, Dr. Levine is a member of multiple national committees including the American Rhinologic Society research and Mentoring Committees, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology Skull Base Committee. She is a co-chair of the the North American Skull Base Health Value Committee -
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Education
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Teaching Interests
I have a great love of teaching and a strong appreciation for the role of interactive and engaged learning. I have carried this philosophy through my many subsequent teaching experiences including my positions as the Director of UM Otolaryngology Resident Education and Director of the UM Resident Rhinology Rotation.
Particular areas of teaching interest:
- Clinical Rhinology & Skull Base
- Operative Rhinology & Skull Base
- Evidence-based Medicine
- Outcomes Research Methodology
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Research Interests
Health Research Interest: My long-term goal is becoming a transdisciplinary outcomes researcher focusing on health disparities and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). My interest is using team science to provide efficient and customized patient care. In this proposal, I take important steps toward this goal with research to reduce CRS care disparities and using multi-faceted CRS disease profiles to predict care outcomes.
I am examining the role social determinants of health (SDOH) play in CRS disease burden in order to incorporate these determinants into future research.
Addressing the significant clinical gaps in CRS care requires a new strategy for integrating and analyzing sociodemographic factors with clinical and biological disease measures. This new field of precision medicine draws on many research arenas. To position myself for performing this precision medicine research, I established a dedicated mentorship and interdisciplinary collaborative team, including leading researchers health disparities, computational sciences, molecular biology, community-based research, microbiome, and olfaction.
Health Disparities: My preliminary research established that Hispanic patients have worse presenting CRS disease burden. This proposal focuses on mitigating these disparities. My work is the first research to incorporate important SDOH into our classification of CRS disease in order to improve CRS treatment outcomes. Moreover, my research also engages our community minority population to identify barriers to successful CRS care. The information gained from my research will inform targeted interventions to address existing care barriers and inform our understanding of disparities in CRS treatment outcomes.
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