Barbara Levey, a former associate dean and director of admissions and assistant dean for curriculum at the School of Medicine, who is remembered for helping to increase female medical student admissions and serving as a role model for female medical faculty, died Oct. 29, 2019, at 84.
Barbara Ann Cohen, born March 7, 1935, in Newburgh, N.Y., graduated from Cornell University in 1957 and in 1961 she earned an MD from the State University of New York at Syracuse—the only woman in her graduating class of 120. She joined Pitt, 1979-91, as a professor of pharmacology and of medicine, serving on Association of American Medical Colleges committees supporting women in medicine.