He received his Medical Doctorate Degree from the University of Oklahoma. In addition to this, he received a Masters of Science Degree from the University of Arizona, and both a Masters in Public Health and a Ph.D.in Health from the University of Oklahoma. He completed the first year of a Family Practice Residency at Oklahoma Teaching Hospitals and then completed a residency program in Pediatrics at Oklahoma Children’s Memorial Hospital. He practiced general pediatrics from 1984 until 1998, and since 1998 he has limited his private practice to addressing the needs of children with ADHD.