He graduated from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) with a Bachelors of Science in Biological Sciences in 1997, and then attended the Medical College of Wisconsin where he graduated in 2003. He completed his pediatric internship and residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 2006 and fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 2009. He then completed a fourth year of subspecialty training and research in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles while being supported by a scholar grant from the NHLBI. Dr. Detterich is a board certified pediatrician since 2006 with subspecialty board certification in pediatric cardiology since 2010.