Dr. Levenstein was born in Manhattan and is a graduate of Harvard University, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She moved to Rome in 1978 and has been practicing primary care internal medicine there ever since, treating a clientele that’s featured Roman auto mechanics and British ambassadors, Indonesian art restorers and Filipina maids, Russian poets and Ethiopian priests. When not seeing patients in her office, doing research in psychosomatic medicine, or being the Artist's Wife to her composer husband, she enjoys blogging at Stethoscope On Rome, playing classical piano, performing watsu (WATer shiatSU, a form of bodywork in warm water), and walking the streets of the most beautiful city in the world.