He also serves as Director of Outpatient Services for the Department of Surgery. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Central State University and subsequently attended medical school at Wake Forest University. Following this, he completed residency training in General Surgery at Los Angeles Countyâ€™s Martin Luther King, Jr./Charles Drew-UCLA program. Dr. Hughes interrupted his residency training in order to undertake a one year research fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center. Following General Surgery training, he spent two years in a Vascular/Endovascular Surgery residency at Harvard Medical Schoolâ€™s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center followed by an additional year of Endovascular Surgery training at the Arizona Heart Institute and Hospital.