Dr. Levin attended medical school in Johannesburg, South Africa, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1981.  He then moved to the United States and studied Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, followed by his Chief Residency and Cardiology Fellowship.
He completed an Interventional Fellowship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles before going into private practice at Hoag Hospital
in Newport Beach in 1990.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases with added qualification in Interventional Cardiology.