He graduated summa cum laude from Marquette University and with Honors in Research from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed a medicine (transitional year) internship at St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin followed by a psychiatry residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he additionally served as a chief resident. He then enrolled in the T32 fellowship in the Clinical Neurobiology of the Major Psychoses at the University of Iowa and concurrently completed an M.S. in Clinical Investigation. He also has a Ph.D. in Translational Biomedicine and a Graduate Certificate in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.