He received his Bachelor of Science, Medical Degree, and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Prior to a clinical anesthesiology career, he was the lead architect of a leading commercially available clinical information system — General Electric Centricity. He led the global clinical information system product development team at GE Healthcare IT. He brings nearly two decades of informatics, software development and business administration experience to perioperative outcomes research. He is the principal investigator of the multicenter perioperative outcomes group (MPOG), a research and quality improvement consortium of more than 40 anesthesiology and surgical departments.