He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (BS, Psychology) and Arizona State University (MA and PhD, Social Psychology). He completed a two year post doctoral training position at the University of Kansas. Dylan previously held the position of Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, where he worked in the multi-disciplinary Center for Behavioral Sciences in Medicine. Other past positions include Health Science Specialist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ann Arbor, and core faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Michigan.