After attending the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, he completed his Ph.D. training in Biological Sciences, with a focus on Human Genetics, at The Ohio State University followed by a Master’s of Public Health in Quantitative Methods at the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his post-doctoral training as a member of the Joslin Diabetes Center’s Section on Genetics and Epidemiology and as an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.