After receiving his MD from Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, he completed residency and fellowship training at Duke. He is board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric critical care medicine and is an attending physician in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. He has an MPH in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and is currently enrolled in the PhD program in pharmaceutical sciences at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.