Dr. Levy trained in Internal and Respiratory Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and was a Research Director at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is former Director of the Respiratory Division at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC and Past-President of the Canadian Thoracic Society.

Dr. Levy is the Medical Director of the BC Lung Transplant Program and Associate Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Vancouver General Hospital.

He is Associate Medical Director of Medical Services for the Vancouver Acute Health Services Delivery Area. He is also the Specialist Lead for the Providence Health Care Chronic Disease Management Strategy.

Dr. Levy's major research interests are related to physiologic and functional outcomes following lung transplantation and in pulmonary hypertension. He has additional interests related to COPD and chronic disease management in respiratory diseases.