He has completed a combined training in Internal Medicine and Medical Biochemistry at McGill University and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Genetics followed by a Fellowship in Preventive Cardiology and Advanced Clinical Lipidology. Later, he earned both MSc and PhD degrees with honors from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine from University of Montreal and did his thesis in PCSK9 and the Prevention of Cardiometabolic Disease in Familial Hypercholesterolemia