He was born and raised in Baltimore and after training in institutions across the country, and working at sites around the world, he has returned to work in his home town. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, his medical degree from Columbia University, and completed his specialty training at Yale New Haven Hospital. He also worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and held the appointment of an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School prior to his return to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2016.