He is also an Associate Professor at the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma at Wake Forest University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1974 and both his PhD and MD from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University (1982, 1985). He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is board certified in both emergency medicine and emergency medical services by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.