He was born and raised in Riverside California and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. After medical school, Dr. Irvin completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Alameda County Highland Hospital in Oakland California, where he served as chief resident in his final year. Upon completion of residency he he went on to complete the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholars Program at Penn where he received a master’s in health policy research (MSHPR) and has been on faculty at Johns Hopkins since 2013.