Ob/gyn Dr. Dina Levin joins Gifford, Randolph community

It’s only been a month since Dr. Dina Levin, an ob/gyn, came to Randolph to work at Gifford Medical Center.
In that brief time, she’s bought a home just down South Main Street from the hospital, enrolled her kids in the Randolph Elementary School, gotten library cards for the family, seen both movies that have come to the Playhouse theater, spoken to a health class at the high school, participated in the running program at the Three Stallion Inn, lost a tree in a thunderstorm and had a pet experience a Vermont canine ritual: baptism by skunk.
In short, she’s settled in.
And now she is seeing patients at Gifford Ob/Gyn and Midwifery.
A graduate of the University of Illinois, the pre-med program at Loyola University of Chicago, and then Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, Dr. Levin then completed a four-year residency at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
In the 14 years since, she’s worked in Portland, Ore., for a private practice called Gateway Women’s Clinic with veteran obstetrician and mentor Dr. Robert Dyson. She’s also been a chart reviewer for Acumentra Health, Oregon’s health care quality improvement organization, and chaired the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatrics at Providence Portland Medical Center.
She comes to Vermont to be closer to family in Connecticut, and for the rural landscape and high-quality schools.
Board certified by American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Levin is a native of Chicago and became a doctor in part because her grandfather was an ob/gyn. She brings a no-nonsense, can-do attitude to Gifford as well as significant experience performing minimally invasive surgeries.
“There are so many things we can do to help women feel better,” Dr. Levin says, listing difficult menstrual cycles and unplanned pregnancies as examples of things that can be avoided. “No one should have to suffer through horrible periods anymore. We can make that better. No one should have to get pregnant when they don’t want to.”
Contraception education, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and reproductive tract cancer prevention, diagnosis and some treatment are among Dr. Levin’s focuses. She additionally provides vaginal hysterectomies, endometrial ablation, laparoscopy, incontinence procedures and medications, and pessary fittings. Pessary fittings are support devices for women with falling reproductive organs, or prolapse. She’s also delivered about 1,300 babies in her career and will be working collaboratively with Gifford’s midwives and physicians on prenatal care and births.