Dr. Levine is president of health innovation and policy at City of Hope, where he leads strategy, innovation and growth alongside payer strategy, government affairs and drug commercialization. Over the past decade, his leadership helped City of Hope expand from two small satellite practices into a national system serving approximately 160,000 patients annually. He founded and serves as chairman of AccessHope, a City of Hope spinoff that delivers specialized cancer expertise as an employer-sponsored telehealth benefit. AccessHope now serves 7 million members through more than 400 organizations, including more than 60 Fortune 500 companies, and uses AI-enabled tools to identify complex cases and proactively support treating physicians. Dr. Levine also launched the “Cancer Care Is Different” coalition, which has pursued policy changes to expand access for underserved patients, including supporting passage of a cancer patients bill of rights resolution and the California Cancer Care Equity Act to expand Medi-Cal beneficiaries’ access to specialized cancer centers. In the past year, he expanded coalition efforts with an Illinois initiative that passed an Illinois cancer patients bill of rights and launched a national coalition focused on federal policy reform to broaden access to optimal cancer care.
