He received his Doctorate in Biology at Cornell University and Postdoctoral Training in Immunogenetics at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. His research concerns the collection of data, and the development of mathematical methods for predicting cancer outcome, the analysis of large cancer datasets for characterizing medical usage for the purpose of improving care and lowering cost, the analysis of cancer screening and other preventive health services, the development of imaging methods for analyzing cancer specimens, and the use of modern computer speech and telephony to design systems that increase patient compliance.