His family has been in Galveston since the early 1980's. His educational background includes B.S. degrees in Biology and Psychology at the University of Houston. He also has research and postgraduate studies in Molecular Biology. From there, he attended medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas where he did research in familial hypercholesteremia. Returning to Galveston, he finished his training at UTMB. He joined the faculty group initially as a hospitalist and teaching physician. He later transitioned fulltime to the outpatient clinical setting. Medical/Professional School: