He obtained his medical degree from Stanford in 2004. The following year, he did a Medicine internship at California Pacific Medical Center. Dr. Hope completed his Diagnostic Radiology residency at UCSF in 2009, followed by a fellowship in Cardiopulmonary Imaging. He is the Co-Director of the Vascular Imaging Research Center at UCSF, Chair of the MR Safety Committee, and increasingly recognized as an expert in advanced cardiovascular imaging techniques with over 50 invited lectures and 70 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited over 1,700 times.