He received his PhD from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Institute at Duke University and a second Fellowship at the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching focus on cardiovascular health and disease. His primary research interests are to investigate the cellular mechanisms involved in the regulation of calcium cycling at the level of sarcoplasmic reticulum and its role in cardiac disease. He is the Cardiovascular Platform Head for the Department of Physiology and he holds a Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Proteomics and Molecular Therapeutics.