He graduated from the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany in 1997, completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of Massachusetts in 2003 and his subspecialty training in Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University in 2006. He joined the Jerome Greene Sjogren’s Syndrome Center in 2010. His clinical and research interests are detection of early disease in Sjogren’s syndrome and patients with overlap of Sjogren’s syndrome and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Together with gynecologist Dr. Anne Burke he holds a special interest in Sjogren’s Syndrome patients with gynecological manifestations.