He is a pediatrician affiliated with Hasbro Children's Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital. He received his undergraduate degree, an independent concentration in Medical Anthropology, from Brown University. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and the Brown Medical School, receiving his degree from Brown in 1989. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Rhode Island Hospital. He also completed a health services research fellowship and received a PhD from the Department of Health Policy in the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.