He completed his residency in Neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, then he underwent combined neurosurgery-orthopedic spine surgery fellowship at New England Baptist hospital in Boston, and a research fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston under the mentorship of Robert S. Langer, Sc.D conducting preclinical trials of neuroscaffolds implantation in injured spinal cord of rats that lead to first inhuman clinical trial.