He completed his master’s degree in pharmacy practice and his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also completed a clinical pharmacy residency at Duke University Medical Center and is a certified immunization pharmacist. He currently teaches medical ethics, bioterrorism, and physical assessment courses at Campbell University. Previously, he worked in the infectious diseases division at Duke University where he completed hundreds of clinical trials. While at Duke, his primary focus was in the immunocompromised host cancer population and he developed the first two AZT trials for AIDS in the world.