He received his MD degree from St. Georges University School of Medicine, and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Mount Sinai affiliated Beth Israel medical center in New Jersey. He completed a Cardiology fellowship at Robert wood Johnson affiliated Cooper Hospital in New Jersey, and completed further fellowships in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Heart Transplantation at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. In addition to these fellowships, he is also a board certified medical acupuncturist, certified yoga teacher and certified iridologist. During his medical schooling, he trained in acupuncture at the Open International University for Complementary and Alternative Medicines in Sri-Lanka.