He received his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University, where he attended on an academic scholarship. He moved to North Carolina for medical school, where he graduated at the top of his class at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Upon taking the United States Medical Licensing Exam, his score put him at the 96th percentile (top 4%) nationally among all medical school graduates. His orthopedic surgery residency was at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, where as chief resident, he was awarded the prestigious Leonard Marmor award for “Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery”, as well as multiple awards for his medical research. He then moved back to Las Vegas in 2004 to begin his orthopedic surgery practice, with an emphasis on treating people with shoulder problems.