He received his BS in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley and his MD from Tufts University. He completed his urology residency at USC, and his pediatric urology fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the CHLA Robotic Surgery Program for minimally invasive surgery in children, and a National Institutes of Health-funded principal investigator (bladder regeneration) at the CHLA Saban Research Institute. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics, a USC/CHLA pediatric medical device consortium. He currently serves on the AUA Western Section's Board of Directors.