Dr Cecil Levy studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and then specialised in Paediatrics on the Wits circuit. After serving as a registrar, Dr Levy worked as a general paediatrician at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital before moving to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital to work in nephrology. Dr Levy took over as the head of paediatric nephrology at CMJAH in 2010 and then, in 2017, moved to NMCH to head the unit here soon after the hospital admitted its first patients.

Dr Levy enjoys teaching and interacting with his patients and has a key interest in critical care nephrology. His research interests revolve mainly around the social aspects of paediatric kidney disease in South Africa and the inequities that prevent access to tertiary renal care in the country.