A clinical bovine veterinarian and specialist in beef production medicine, he received his DVM from UGA in 2008. After graduation, he practiced as a large animal ambulatory veterinarian for two months before completing an internship in livestock medicine and surgery at Colorado State University. He returned to UGA in 2009 as a resident in Large Animal Internal Medicine, and was awarded his PhD in physiology/pharmacology in 2014. He joined the faculty of the CVM in 2013.