He earned his medical degree in 1987 from the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg, Manitoba. He then completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, and an arthroplasty fellowship at the Arizona Center for Joint Replacement in Phoenix and Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s and Central DuPage Hospitals in Chicago. Since then, he has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Manitoba, medical director of the Manitoba Bone and Tissue Bank, head of the Subsection Adult Hip and Knee Canadian Medical Association and the examiner of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.