Research

Current Projects

Honorary Fellow of Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Melbourne.

Clinical Senior Lecturer at The University of Melbourne

Executive Council Member (Treasurer) of Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology.

Member of the Academy of Surgical Educators RACS

Surgical Supervisor for The Royal Children’s Hospital

Member of the Surgeon Wellbeing Taskforce of the RACS Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Member of the international Working Group for Sialorrhea Clinical Pathway for the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin).

Member of the International Working Group for ENT Exacerbation of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (Bern, Switzerland).

Educator of Merit, RACS Victorian Surgical Supervisor of the Year 2023 Certificate of Outstanding Service

Developing an Immune and Epithelial Cell Atlas of the Pediatric Airway. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. M Neeland, J Maksimovich, A Oshlack, R Saffery, E Levi, B Novakovic, S Ranganathan, S Shanthikumar.

Recent Selected Publications

Radial forearm free flap reconstruction in a 3-month-old patient with undifferentiated pharyngeal sarcoma. T Lam, E Levi, J Shen, D Wilks, W Alexander. Microsurgery. 2024 Feb;44(2):e31149.

Trend in Airway Management and Associated Complications for Endoscopic Airway
Intervention Procedures for Subglottic Stenosis Between 2012-2022 – a Tertiary Centre
Experience from Melbourne Australia. J Emmerson , A Elsiwy , E Levi , YCM Tsai. Poster Presentation World Congress of Anesthesiologists, Singapore, 3-7 March 2024.

Otolaryngological burden of disease in children with primary cilliary dyskinesia in Victoria Australia. S Baird, D Wong, E Levi, P Robinson. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 2023 Oct; Volume 173

Laryngeal myxedema as a cause of reversible subglottic stenosis in a newborn. E Levi, L Nisa. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 11/2022, Volume 162.

Airway management in patients with lingual thyroid – a case report and review of the literature. L Nisa, S Morrison, E Levi. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. Vol. 279 Issue 7, pp. 3289–3295, 2022.

Making decisions about surgical intervention for drooling in children with neurodisability. M Cooper, E Levi, M Desai, E Downey, S James, D Chong. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2021 Sep;63(9):1127-1128.

Postoperative admission to paediatric intensive care after tonsillectomy. E Levi, A Alvo, B Anderson, M Mahadevan. 2020. SAGE open Medicine vol 8:1-5.

Paediatric petrous temporal bone fractures: a 5-year experience at an Australian paediatric trauma centre. J Leung, E Levi. Australian Journal of Otolaryngology 2020;3:6.

Managing oneself before managing others: a health advocacy core competency. E Levi. ANZ J Surg 2019. Vol 89: 1494-1496.

Longitudinal analysis of Voice Handicap Index in early glottic cancer patients treated with transoral laser microsurgery: age, gender, stage and time dependence. C Lane, M Rigby, R Hoart, J Trites, E Levi, SM Taylor. Journal of Laryngology Otology. 2019 Apr; 133(4): 318-323.

Awareness to Action: The challenge of doctors’ mental health. E Levi. Surgical News Sept 2018. Vol 19 (8): 14-15.

Mentally and physically safe workplaces: the challenge of doctors’ well-being. ENT & Audiology News 2018. 27 (4).

Double button battery ingestion – The “macaroon” sign. E Littlehales, E Levi, N Mills, R Metcalfe, J Hamill. Journal of Paediatric Surgery Case Reports. 2018. 36:36-39

Interview with Prof Graeme Clark, Inventor of Bionic Ear. E Levi. ENT & Audiology News. 2017. 26(4): 105-107.

The Incidental Thyroid Lesion in Parathyroid Disease Management. Alamoudi U, Levi E, Rigby MH, Taylor SM, Trites JRB, Hart RD. OTO Open March 2017.

Absence of Ulnar Artery Inflow Detected by Allen’s Test Prior to Radial Forearm Free Flap. Taylor B, Alzhrani F, Levi E, Taylor SM, Trites J, Rigby MH, Hart RD.Plast Reconstr Surg. 2017;5:e129.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Children with Tinnitus. E Levi, EK Bekhit, & RG Berkowitz. Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. 2015. 124(2):126-131

Mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the lingual artery: a rare complication of parapharyngeal abscess. Badloo K. Levi E. Downie L. Rose E. Wagner T. Lubitz L. Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health. 48(11):1045-6, 2012 Nov.

Walking on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children’s Lives. E Levi. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2010 Apr. 80(4): 291.

Making the Cut. E Levi. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2010 Mar. 80(3): 193.

Learning the Art of Research through Small Group Mentoring. E Levi, D Chiu. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2009 Sept. 79(9): 660-660.

Operating on Patients on Warfarin: A simple and safer alternative. D Chiu, M Grigg, E Levi. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2009 May. 79(5): 409-410.

Prevalence of cardiac murmurs and acute rheumatic fever in schoolchildren in rural Nepal. HS. Lim¹, PMY. Cheng¹, ATH. Chen¹, E. Levi², A. Maskey³, DL. Hare¹, O. Farouque¹.   ⁽¹⁾ Austin ⁽²⁾ Box Hill Hospitals, Melbourne, Australia ⁽³⁾ Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center, Kathmandu, Nepal. Heart, Lung and Circulation 2007;16:S2:S68.