He holds an MD from La Salle University School of Medicine in Mexico City and an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Ottawa. He completed a 4-years Residency program in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Hematology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City and a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Thrombosis at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are focused on determinants of thromboembolic diseases, observational studies and clinical trials in thromboembolic disease, risk-benefit analysis and decision making. His secondary research interests include clinical and observational studies involving hematological malignancies. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Hematology in 2014.