A NJ native, he completed his undergraduate education at Stevens Institute of Technology with a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering and minor in Chemical Biology. He went to medical school at Mount Sinai and IAU, and he did a post-graduate externship in Psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital in NY prior to starting residency. He completed his general psychiatry residency at Augusta University - Medical College of Georgia. His clinical and research focuses include geriatric psychiatry, therapeutic neuromodulation, and addiction medicine.