He has collaborated on interdisciplinary research at the Harvard Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, the Workers Compensation Research Institute, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. After graduating from the Yale Law School, he served as a law clerk for Justice William Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court and worked at the law firm of Ropes & Gray before joining the BC law faculty. He also graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and serves as the chief of occupational and environmental medicine for Partners HealthCare at the MGH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.