Levin, Jeff 1959-

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LEVIN, Jeff 1959-

PERSONAL:

Born February 17, 1959, in Chicago, IL; son of Phillip (an attorney) and Judith (an artist, psychotherapist, and healer; maiden name, Goldfeder) Citrin; married Lea Steele Levin (an epidemiologist and human ecologist), July 28, 1996. Education: Duke University, A.B., 1981; University of North Carolina, M.P.H., 1983; University of Texas Medical Branch, Ph.D., 1987. Politics: Republican. Religion: Jewish. Hobbies and other interests: Writing country music songs, fishing, studying the Torah, fitness workouts, visiting caves.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—Lisa Hagan, Paraview, 191 Seventh Ave., Suite 2F, New York, NY 10011. E-mail—levin@religionandhealth.com.

CAREER:

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, postdoctoral research fellow, 1987-89; Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, professor, 1989-97; writer, researcher, and consultant in rural Kansas, 1997—. National Institutes of Health, chair of working group on quantitative methods in alternative medicine, 1994-98; Haworth Pastoral Press, board member, 1998-2002; Shepherd's Centers of America, member of board of trustees, 2002; member of Center on Aging, Religion, and Spirituality, 1994—, Center for Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma, 1994-98, and Santa Fe Institute for Medicine and Prayer, 1995-98.

MEMBER:

International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (board member, 1995-99; president, 1997-98), Gerontological Society of America (fellow), Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Templeton Prize for exemplary paper in religion and the medical sciences, John Templeton Foundation, 1996 and 1997; grants from Institute for Research on Unlimited Love at Case Western Reserve University and Institute of Noetic Sciences.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Religion in Aging and Health: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Frontiers, Sage Publications (Beverly Hills, CA), 1994.

(Editor, with Wayne B. Jonas) Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Philadelphia, PA), 1999.

God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection, John Wiley and Sons (New York, NY), 2001.

(With Robert Joseph Taylor and Linda M. Chatters) Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives, Sage Publications (Beverly Hills, CA), 2003.

(Editor, with Harold G. Koenig) Faith Matters: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson, Haworth Press (Binghamton, NY), in press.

Contributor of more than 130 articles to periodicals.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Loving God: Finding Peace of Heart through Engaging the Divine; The Love Factor: Science Discovers the Key to Health, Happiness, and Peace of Heart.