He attended medical school and graduate school in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco before completing his Neurology residency in the Harvard Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, a research fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and clinical fellowships in Movement Disorders and Memory Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital. He sees patients in both the Movement Disorders Unit and the Memory Disorders Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His lab focuses on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Dementia with Lewy Bodies, contrasted with normal brain function, using multiple single eletrode recording techniques and optogenetic strategies in animal models, and PET molecular imaging in humans.