Dr. Levinson was born in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a Bachelor's degree at the University of Florida and graduated from the University of Tennessee Memphis, The Health Science Center with honors. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology. Dr. Levinson is an active member of the American Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Dr. Levinson is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Memphis, The Health Science Center and Chief of the GI Teaching Service at the Baptist Memorial Hospital where he has received the Outstanding Teacher Award on numerous occasions. He has extensive training in liver disease and is actively involved with the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease.

Dr. Levinson and his wife, Nancy, have two children, Dusten and David, one grandchild, and twin granddaughters.