He attended medical school at St. George's University, and completed his Pediatrics Residency at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital at Case Western Reserve University. Following that he completed his fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. During fellowship, he completed a randomized, controlled trial examining the effects of continuous pulmonary airway pressure (CPAP) on lung growth and function in preterm infants, as well as helped to establish a neonatal intensive care unit at the Oregon National Primate Research Center to help look at the role of CPAP in lung growth and function in preterm non-human primates.