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.