He did his medical training first in San Antonio and then most recently in the Department of Surgery at Houston Methodist before he founded his company Allotrope Medical Inc in 2016. Since then, he has raised investor funding, built up a team, and has received accolades both in academic medicine (receiving Top Innovation during the 2017 SAGES conference earlier this year) as well as in the field of medtech through acceptance into the competitive Johnson & Johnson J-Labs innovation space, and placing second among 600 medical device companies from around the world during the prestigious Medtech Conference/Medtech Innovator competition.