He has been a member of the Board of Directors for 5 years, and has been involved with the Triple Helix since its inception in 2005. He received his medical degree from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a degree in Molecular Biotechnology, where he founded a Triple Helix chapter in 2005. He has authored or co-authored numerous scientific manuscripts and book chapters and presented his research as an invited speaker both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, an American Medical Association Foundation Seed Grant, a TEDMED FrontLine Scholarship, a NASA Space Grant Award, and the Alfred S. Maschke Award for Excellence in the Art and Practice of Medicine.