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Barcey Levy, MD, PhD

Professor of Family and Community Medicine

Current Positions

  • Professor of Family and Community Medicine
  • Associate Head for Research of Family and Community Medicine
  • Iowa Academy of Family Physicians Endowed Chair in Rural Medicine

Education

  • AB, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Family Medicine Residency, Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Chief Resident, Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Research Interests

  • Osteoporosis prevention
  • Describing collaboration which occurred on the RC4 with family physician practices and with our community assistants.
  • Colon cancer screening
  • Intervention studies in practice-based research networks
  • Test Characteristics of Single-Sample FIT Tests
  • Patient Preferences for Colorectal Cancer Testing
  • Risk factors for dental cavities
  • Self-care management
  • Risk Factors for Childhood Dental Cavities
  • Self-care behaviors in diabetes

Licenses & Certifications

  • State of Iowa Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa
  • Family Medicine Board Certification, American Board of Family Medicine, Iowa
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, American Heart Association, Iowa
  • Basic Life Support, American Heart Association, Iowa
  • Controlled Substances License, US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration, Iowa
  • IMPLANON Clinical Training Program, Iowa
  • Iowa Controlled Substances Act, Iowa Board of Pharmacy, Iowa
  • NEXPLANON (etonogestrel implant) Clinical Training Program, Iowa
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support, American Heart Association and The American Academy of Pediatrics, Iowa

Selected Publications

  • Lund A, Levy BT, Xu Y, Bedell D, Santillan M. Is Rural Residence an Independent Risk Factor for Spontaneous Preterm Birth at a Midwestern Tertiary Care Center? A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2025
  • Wisnousky A, Kasper S, Xu Y, Levy BT. Clinical Practice Patterns for Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Comparison of Family and Internal Medicine Practices. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Submitted 14 May 2025
  • Daly J, Xu Y, Levy BT. Patients' Difficulties with Five Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2024 Nov;37(6):1014-1026. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230469R1
  • Goode AP, Goertz C, Chakroborty H, Salsbury SA, Broderick S, Levy BT, Ryan, K, Settles S, Hort S, Dolor RJ, Chrischilles EA, Kasper S, Stahl JE, Almond C, Reed SD, Shannon Z, Harris D, Daly J, Winokur P, Lurie JD. Implementation of the American College of Physicians Guideline for Low Back Pain (IMPACt-LBP): protocol for a health care systems embedded multisite pragmatic cluster-randomized trial. BMJ Open. 2025 Mar 26;15(3):e097133. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097133
  • Levy B, Daly J, Xu Y. Patients’ Preferences and Difficulties with 5 Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FITS). The Annals of Family Medicine. 2024 Nov;22(Supplement1):6090. doi: 10.1370/afm.22.s1.6090
  • Daly J, Xu Y, Levy BT. Patients' Difficulties with Five Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests. Presented at North American Primary Care Research Group, 52nd Annual Meeting. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. November 2024
  • Levy BT, Xu Y, Daly JM, Hoffman RM, Dawson JD, Shokar NK, Zuckerman MJ, Molokwu J, Reuland DS, Crockett SD. Comparative Performance of Common Fecal Immunochemical Tests: A Cross-Sectional Study. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Oct;177(10):1350-1360. doi: 10.7326/M24-0080. Epub 2024 Sep 3. PMID: 39222513.
  • Broach J, Achenbach C, Behar S, O’Connor L, Tarrant S, Ferranto J, Wright C, Hartin P, Orwig T, Nanavati J, Kalibala B, Woods K, Shaw B, Flahive J, Barton B, Hafer N, Herbert C, Fahey N,  Gibson L, Simin K, Kowalik, T, Ward D, Mirza AW, Murphy R, Caputo M, Buchholz B, Fantasia H, Koren A, Marchand L, Oludare S, Sogade F, Ritland D, Davis C, Grenier A, Baron C, Brent E, McKenney JB, Elder N, Michaels L, Ferrara L, Theron G, Palmer Z, Levy B, Daly J, Parang K, Schmidt M, Buxton D, Heetderks W, Manabe YC, Soni A,  Mcmanus, D. Design, creation, and use of the Test Us Bank (TUB) COVID-19 sample biorepository. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2024;24(1):1282. doi: 10.1186/s12879-024-10154-0.
  • Daly J, Xu Y, Levy BT. Patients' Difficulties with Five Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests. Journal of American Board of Family Medicine. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230469R1
  • Tandon M, Levy S, Eckert G, Warren J, Daly JM, Keels MA, Hara A, Fontan M, Levy BT. Prevalence of Receipt of Fluoride Varnish in Dental and Medical Screenings in School-aged U.S. Children. The 70th congress ORCA 2023 meets EFCD. Organisation for Caries Research & European Federation for Conservative Dentistry. Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, July 2023.