In 1990, he received an undergraduate Honours Degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of Sheffield, UK. Afterwards, he attended Sheffield University Medical School and received a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery in 1993. Following internship at Sheffield University Hospitals he completed a residency in hospital medicine at Southampton University Hospitals in 1997 and obtained board certification in hospital medicine (MRCP). He then completed a residency in anesthesiology at the Wessex School of Anaesthesia (Southampton University Hospitals) in 2006 and completed boards certification in anesthesiology (FRCA). He was Senior Clinical Fellow in Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Anesthesia at the Institute of Liver Studies, Kings College Hospital, London before moving to the United States in 2006.