He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Psychology in 1987 and received his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1993. He completed his Residency in Neurosurgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2001 and a fellowship in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, also in 2001. Since joining Penn State Hershey he has established the Gamma Knife center and built an advanced program for treating Movement Disorders with Deep Brain Stimulation. He has been featured locally on ABC 27’s programs “BrainStorm” and “Stimulating Minds”.