She received her Ph.D. in clinical and health psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999, and joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2001. Dr. Levine is a licensed clinical psychologist and her research focuses on relations among mood, weight, and women's health behaviors. Recent research projects, supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, focus on the role that mood and weight concerns play in smoking relapse during the postpartum period, treatment to prevent relapse among postpartum women smokers, the prevention of weight gain among young women, and the treatment of pediatric obesity.