He completed medical school at University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at The George Washington University Hospital. He then completed his Infectious Disease fellowship at The George Washington University Hospital in 2012. After working in a private practice Infectious Disease group in the East Bay outside of San Francisco for three years, Dr. Sarpel returned to academics and completed a Viral Hepatology Fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Douglas Dieterich at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Institute of Liver Medicine. Dr. Sarpel’s main research interests involve hepatitis C patients who have failed DAA therapy, improving hepatocellular carcinoma screening in chronic hepatitis B and C infected patients, and treatment and epidemiology of HCV/HIV and HBV/HIV co-infected patients.