He earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago and Postdoctoral Masters in Clinical Psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is board certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, and in Medical Psychology by the American Board of Medical Psychology. He is a member of the faculty of the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency. Additionally he sees patients for psychotherapy and medication at the Center Through the Looking Glass in Las Cruces and Hoover and Associates in Chicago. He was a Faculty member and Psychology Department Chair at Saint Xavier University in Chicago for twenty years.