He is also the director of the medical center’s Travel & Tropical Medicine Clinic. He is a graduate of the VCU School of Medicine (MD) and was a resident and a chief resident in Internal Medicine at VCU where he also completed fellowships in Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology. He completed a Master of Public Health degree at VCU. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.