He graduated from Brown University School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After 23 years in the Army he retired and joined Upstate. He is board certified in Infectious Diseases and holds appointments in Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology. He is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and continues to be clinically active in inpatient and outpatient medicine. He is Director, Upstate Center for Global Health and Translational Science and remains a funded clinical researcher. His research interests include development of vaccines, drugs and diagnostics for malaria, dengue, rabies and other diseases with global impact.