He joined the faculty in 2016. He trained to be a Chartered Accountant at the University of Waterloo and has worked at Ernst & Young and KPMG. He subsequently attended medical school at the University of Alberta. He completed internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship training at McMaster University. He completed the Present-Levison advanced inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) fellowship in Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York, NY, in 2015. He subsequently pursued an M.P.H. at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA. He is certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Internal Medicine.