Levi Novero, MD
Biography:
Dr. Levi Novero earned his medical degree from Fatima College of Medicine in his home country in Manila; Philippines. He then worked at the National Heart; Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda; Maryland; doing research in pulmonary hypertension.
Dr. Novero completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey where he received teaching and clinical honors. He then worked as a hospitalist in internal medicine at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor; Maine before moving to Miami to pursue a fellowship. He completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; specializing in the care of children with heart conditions as well as adults with congenital heart disease and fetal cardiology.
Dr. Novero joined KIDZ Medical Services in July 2011 and has been serving Naples as one of the area’s first pediatric cardiologists. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Pediatrics with a subspecialty certification in pediatric cardiology. His special interests include cardiomyopathy; cardiac arrhythmia; postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS); adults with congenital heart disease; and fetal echocardiography.