He graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 2009. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in 2012. Shortly thereafter, he began his four year commitment as a National Health Service Corp scholar in Los Angeles, where he worked as a primary care physician and hospitalist in the Watts and Skid Row areas from 2012-2016.