He serves as section head of cardiovascular pathology and program director of the cardiovascular pathology training fellowship. He received his MD at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine, and then took his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed fellowships in cardiovascular pathology and molecular genetic pathology at Mayo Clinic. His main areas of research interest are cardiac tumours, cardiovascular diagnostics in congenital and acquired cardiovascular disease, and genomics/proteomics of cardiomyopathies. He has authored more than 110 manuscripts and 60 book chapters as well as edited 2 major texts.