He is also the faculty director of the University of Richmond’s Sophomore Scholars-in-Residence program (an experiential living-learning program for students), and associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2000 and a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral traineeship at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health from 2000 to 2002. From 1992-1993, he worked on Medicaid policy in the White House Office for George H.W. Bush and thereafter on health insurance and Medicare policy at the AARP during the health care reform effort of 1993-94. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A., 1991).