He serves as an instructor of medical education (psychiatry) at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct instructor of social work at the University of South Florida. Trained at the University of Pittsburgh and its affiliated hospital system, he completed additional postgraduate training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is an associate member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and has served as membership chair of the Academy for the Psychoanalytic Arts. He is a voluntary associate professor in the psychiatry residency program at Centerstone.