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Myra Estrin Levine
1921 to 1996

The Conservation Model

Karen Moore Schaefer

“Nursing is human interaction”
(Levine, 1973, p. 1).

University of Illinois (1962 to 1963, 1977 to 1987).
Credentials and Background of the She chaired the Department of Clinical Nursing at
Theorist* Cook County School of Nursing (1963 to 1967) and
Myra Estrin Levine enjoyed a varied career. She was coordinated the graduate nursing program in oncology
a private duty nurse (1944), a civilian nurse in the at Rush University (1974 to 1977). Levine was director
U.S. Army (1945), a preclinical instructor in the of the Department of Continuing Education at Evanston
physical sciences at Cook County (1947 to 1950), di- Hospital (March to June 1974) and consultant to the
rector of nursing at Drexel Home in Chicago (1950 to department (July 1974 to 1976). She was adjunct as-
1951), and surgical supervisor at both the University sociate professor of Humanistic Studies at the Univer-
of Chicago Clinics (1951 to 1952) and the Henry Ford sity of Illinois (1981 to 1987). In 1987, she became a
Hospital in Detroit (1956 to 1962). Levine worked her Professor Emerita, Medical Surgical Nursing, at the
way up the academic ranks at Bryan Memorial Hospi- University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1974, Levine went
tal in Lincoln, Nebraska (1951), Cook County School to Tel-Aviv University, Israel, as a visiting associate
of Nursing (1963 to 1967), Loyola University (1967 professor and returned as a visiting professor in 1982.
to 1973), Rush University (1974 to 1977), and the She also was a visiting professor at Recanati School of

*The information in this section is informed by Levine’s autobiographical chapter (1988a), her curriculum vitae, and the program
from the Mid-Year Convocation, Loyola University, Chicago (1992).
Previous authors: Karen Moore Schaefer, Gloria S. Artigue, Karen J. Foil, Tamara Johnson, Ann Marriner Tomey, Mary Carolyn
Poat, LaDema Poppa, Roberta Woeste, and Susan T. Zoretich.

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