He received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2007. In 2008, he completed his PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University School of Medicine in California, where he completed a one-year internal medicine internship the same year. In 2009, Dr. Sugrue finished a post-doctoral fellowship at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, and in 2013 he completed a four-year Diagnostic Radiology residency at UCSF. Dr. Sugrue finished a five-month mini-fellowship in diagnostic neuroradiology in 2013, followed by an ACGME Neuroradiology fellowship in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF in 2014.