He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with honors. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Winthrop-University Hospital, the primary teaching affiliate for the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine. He continued at Winthrop to complete his fellowship training in Gastroenterology, followed by an advanced fellowship in Transplant Hepatology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has given several oral presentations and presented posters of his research at international meetings such as AASLD, DDW, ACG and NYSGE.