He attended college at the University of Rochester, where he received a BA in Biology, concentrating on biochemistry and molecular biology. He spent a year doing research at Rochester in cellular and molecular biology, after which he went to medical school at Cornell University Medical College, where he received his MD. He then spent a year in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, after which he completed a year training in Pathology at New York University Medical Center. Subsequently, he pursued a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at NYU. This was followed by a fellowship in Body Imaging and finally a fellowship in Interventional Radiology, both at NYU.