He is also a member of the Lymphoma Research Foundation's (LRF's) Mantle Cell Lymphoma Consortium (MCLC) and an LRF Career Development Award (CDA) grant recipient. He received his MD from State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook School of Medicine and his BA in molecular and cellular biology from Harvard University. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital and his fellowship in Medical Oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine. With clinical focus in chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL), cutaneous lymphomas, follicular lymphoma (FL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD), his lab at Mount Sinai focuses on basic and applied tumor immunology.