He is also a Staff Physician at the Epilepsy Center of Excellence at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (http://www.epilepsy.va.gov). He received a BA with honors in psychobiology from Claremont McKenna College, before earning a medical degree and a doctorate in neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. He then completed a medicine internship at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, followed by a neurology residency at UCSF, where he served as a chief neurology resident for Moffitt Hospital in his final year. He completed a fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at UCSF before joining the faculty.