He received his medical degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and completed his residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he was selected by the American Board of Medicine to pursue an academic career as part of their MERIT pathway. He stayed on at Baylor to serve his cardiology fellowship (1999-2002), during which he was honored with the Best Clinical Research Award in Cardiology. He also received the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/Merck Research Award in 2000 and the Young Investigator Award (AACIO) in 2002. In 2015, he was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the local chapter of the ACC.