He is a licensed psychologist since 2000. He has worked at Courage Center in the Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program and Phoenix Center Pain Services in Golden Valley since 2005. Previously, he worked at Sister Kenny Institute, Abbott Northwestern Hospital Chronic Pain Program for 6 years. Prior to this, he was the Director of a Chronic Pain Program and Back and Neck Rehabilitation Program at The Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology for 27 years. He also worked in Neurosurgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Minneapolis.