Rene H. Levy, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle where he served as chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics for 26 years. His interest in neuroscience grew out of his work in the field of epilepsy where he published more than 300 research articles and edited several books on the treatment of epilepsy.
Dr. Levy received numerous awards: “Ambassador for Epilepsy” in 1989, “Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science” in 2007, “Lifetime Achievement Award from the Epilepsy Foundation” in 2011, and the William G. Lennox-Cesare T. Lombroso Award, the highest award given by the American Epilepsy Society, in 2013.
In the last decade, Dr Levy drew on his interest in neuroscience to authored a first book called “Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do About It” (Gefen Publishing).
After the 2016 election, when political hatred became a source of societal cleavage among family, friends, Dr Levy wrote “Mending America’s Political Divide,” to provide the reader not trained in science with an understanding of the barriers separating Democrat and Republican partisans, and with the “People-Over Politics Action Plan,” a stepwise approach to re-learn how to engage with and live with political disagreements.