He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in neurological surgery at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic. He has completed advanced fellowship training in complex spine surgery at both the Cleveland Clinic and at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. In addition, he has completed fellowship training at the Brain Tumor Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, as well as in Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle, Washington.