He graduated from FTE Souza Marques in Brazil followed by residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hematology-oncology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Among his awards are the first place in the Doctor’s Dilemma Competition from the American College of Physicians in Florida (2000), Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2003), American Society of Clinical Oncology Merit Award (2004), David S. Fischer Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Fellows in Medical Oncology at the Yale Cancer Center (2013), and Teacher of the Year award for the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program at Washington University (2015).