He earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and completed his Neurology residency training at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, MN and postdoctoral training at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, VA. He is a past recipient of the American Academy of Neurology clinical research training grant, and his work is currently funded by the National Institues of Health. He is the director of the Huntington Disease and Chorea Multidiscipline Clinic at Vanderbilt. Also, he is the Principle Investigator of research studies and clinical trials in Parkinson and Huntington Disease.