He received a M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He trained in neurology at the BIDMC and completed a behavioral neurology and neurorehabilitation fellowship at the BIDMC in conjunction with the memory disorders clinic at the Boston VA Medical Center. He is board certified in neurology. His clinical and research interest lie in memory disorders secondary to strokes, trauma, and anoxic brain injury as well as other etiologies of amnesia.