After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, he received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2006. ;He then completed a pediatric residency in 2009 and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship in 2012 at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He then joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine with a clinical practice in pediatric infectious diseases and a research focus on novel mechanisms of inflammation and host-pathogen interaction.;