Doug Levy

Award-winning former journalist and university communications leader, Doug Levy advises organizations on how to communicate with their communities better and faster, especially during crises. As a communications leader at medical centers in New York and San Francisco, he has hands-on experience with Ebola, H1N1 flu, Hurricane Sandy and a long list of other business interruptions and crises. Among the first to embrace social media as an emergency communications tool, Levy conducts workshops and...See more

Award-winning former journalist and university communications leader, Doug Levy advises organizations on how to communicate with their communities better and faster, especially during crises. As a communications leader at medical centers in New York and San Francisco, he has hands-on experience with Ebola, H1N1 flu, Hurricane Sandy and a long list of other business interruptions and crises. Among the first to embrace social media as an emergency communications tool, Levy conducts workshops and consults on communications for police, fire, public health and other organizations. Levy covered science, health, and technology for USA Today during most of the 1990s. He was chief communications officer at Columbia University Medical Center in New York from 2010-2015. See less