I graduated from the Creighton University College of Arts & Sciences with a Bachelor of Science in Biology summa cum laude in 1994. I matriculated to Creighton Medical School and graduated in 1998. During my time at Creighton, I was named to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, and won numerous awards for research projects I completed while there.
Following graduation from medical school in 1998, I pursued general surgical training at the Beth Israel Deaconess Surgical Service at Harvard Medical School. It was during this time that I first was exposed to Pediatric Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, and truly realized the palpable benefit a pediatric could make in a childs life. Following a three year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Dr. David Sachs lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, I completed general surgical residency in 2006.
As a Pediatric Surgical Fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, I worked under the guidance of Dr. Keith Georgeson, a world-famous innovator in pediatric surgery who furthered my training in advanced laparoscopy.
In 2008, Jen & I moved to Charleston, SC to begin my career as a pediatric surgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina, where I still am today.