Howard Levy, MD, PhD

Howard P Levy, MD, PhD, is Chief Medical Information Officer at Maryland Primary Care Physicians, LLC. He received his PhD in Human Genetics and his MD from University of Maryland, followed by internal medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center. He started developing expertise in Ehlers Danlos syndrome during his medical genetics fellowship at the National Human Genome Research Institute, which he completed in 1995. He was then a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University until April, 2023, when he moved to his current position.

He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Clinical Genetics, and Clinical Informatics. In addition to caring for patients with EDS and related hereditary disorders of connective tissue, his interests include primary care of adults with genetic conditions, genetic risk assessment for common complex diseases, integration of genetics into primary care, and improving the efficiency, utility and interoperability of EHRs (Electronic Health Records). Dr. Levy was the author of GeneReviews® “Ehlers-Danlos, Hypermobility Type” from the initial publication in 2004 until the February 2024 update.