He received both his bachelor’s of science in pharmacy (1996) and Pharm.D. (1998) degrees from the Albany College of Pharmacy. He then completed residencies in pharmacy practice and adult internal medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina from 1998 to 2000. His current area of clinical practice is adult internal medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital, where he is a member of a multidisciplinary inpatient medical team. He also directs the School of Pharmacy's Pharmaceutical Care Learning Center. His areas of interest in research and scholarly activity include gastroenterology and hepatology drug therapies and medication safety in the hospital setting. He has served as a faculty member for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Updates in Therapeutics: The Pharmacotherapy Preparatory Review Course since 2004.