Education:University of Illinois (B.S. 1994)
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (M.D., 1998)
University of Southern California - LA County Medical Center General Surgery Residency (1998-2005)
Research Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Transplantation - University of Southern California (2001-2003
Columbia University - New York Presbyterian Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency (2005-2007)
Fellowship in Mechanical Circulatory Support, Columbia University (2008)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2008-2010)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, (2010 - 2018)
Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support, University of Southern California, (2010 - 2016)
Chief, Cardiac Surgery, LAC+USC Medical Center (2018-2022)
Chair, Biomedical Institutiional Review Board, USC (2019-2022)
Associate Professor of Surgery and Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California (2018-2022)
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2022 - present)