He completed his joint M.D./M.B.A. degree at Case Western Reserve University and then completed his Internship and Residency at Stanford. He has been an academic hospitalist at Stanford since 2012. He is the Section Chief of the Stanford ValleyCare Hospitalist team, the Director of the Stanford Medicine Consult and Procedure Team, and a Core Residency Faculty Member. He has been recognized for his teaching, receiving the David A Rytand Clinical Teaching Award, the Arthur L Bloomfield Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching and the Lawrence Mathers Award for exceptional commitment to teaching in Medical Student education. He has mentored multiple quality improvement projects of the Stanford Healthcare Consulting Group and his research focuses on high value care.