Barbara Levy, MD, Vice President, Health Policy, oversees ACOG’s Office of Global Women’s Health programs to improve the status of women’s health worldwide. Dr. Levy also supervises ACOG’s Health Economics department, Voluntary Review of Quality of Care, the Safety Certification for Outpatient Practice Excellence for Women’s Health (SCOPE) program, the American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s Health Program, the Strategic Health Care Initiatives department and the review programs for Maternal Mortality and Fetal & Infant Mortality.

Before joining ACOG, Dr. Levy was in private ob-gyn practice and the medical director of the Women’s Health and Breast Center and Women’s and Children’s Services for the Franciscan Health System in Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Levy has been a member of the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) since 1999 and is currently serving a second term as Chair. She has published and co-authored over 70 studies and articles related to her primary research interests, which include hysterectomy, endoscopic surgery, pelvic pain, surgical outcomes, and physician payment policy.

Dr. Levy graduated magna cum laude with an undergraduate degree in psychology from Princeton University. She obtained her medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, followed by an internship and residency in ob-gyn at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center (now the Oregon Health & Sciences University) in Portland.   Dr. Levy is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is certified with Accreditation Council for Gynecologic Endoscopy with specialties in Advance Operative Laparoscopy and Advanced Operative Hysteroscopy.