He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University with a degree in “History and Science” for which he wrote his undergraduate thesis on social dimensions of the recombinant DNA controversy in the early 1970’s. He then received his MD/PhD degrees from Stanford University. He completed his Pediatric residency training at Boston Children’s Hosptial at Harvard and then his specialty training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Caltech under the mentorship of Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore.