Bachelors of Science, International Affairs, 1988.
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.

• Categorical Resident, Internal Medicine, 1994 – 1997, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, N.Y.
• Fellowship, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, 1998 – 2001, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.

• American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 1997.
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, 2000
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care, 2001.

• June 2007 – current: Chief, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Intensivist, Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit, November 2005 – June 2007, New York Hospital Queens, Flushing, N.Y.
• Intensivist, Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit, 2003 – 2005, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y.
• Intensivist, Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit, 2003 – 2005, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y.
• Pulmonary & Critical Care Attending Physician, Heart Surgery Unit, 2001 – 2003, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.

• American Thoracic Society
• Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Dr. Edward Meilman Fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine 2000 – 2001, Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
• Long Island Jewish Medical Center Research Grant: “Endothelial Specific Enhancer of E-Selectin”, 2000.