Received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Brown University and obtained his medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He then completed his surgical residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH. During his residency he also spent time at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN as a research fellow pursuing his interests in transplantation immunology. He then went on to complete his vascular surgery fellowship at University Hospitals of Case Western Reserve University. He comes to Southern California to join the SDVC team and as an attending surgeon at Palomar Medical Center.