He pursued undergraduate education at California State University and received his medical degree from the University of California at Irvine in 2004. After completing a year in Internal Medicine in 2005 at Rochester General Hospital, he completed his radiology residency on the vascular track in 2009 at University of Rochester Medical Center. From 2009-2010, Dr. Butani completed a Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellowship program at University of Rochester Medical Center.