

Intra-Residency Fellowship: MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE/UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - sterotactic Radiosurgery, (7/00-12/00). Advisors: Drs. L. Dade Lunsford, Douglas Kondziolka & Bruce Pollock.
Residency: MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Rochester, MN, Neurological Surgery, (1995-2001)
Internship: ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, Denver, CO, General Surgery (1994-1995)
Medical School: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, School of Medicine, Doctorate of Medicine, May 1994
Undergraduate: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, May 1989
Honors & Awards:
- Rhone Pouleno-Rorer Scholar to Congress of Neurological Surgeons 49th Annual Meeting (1999)
- Graduated medical school with distinction (1994)
- Merck Manual Award for academic excellence in medical school (1994)
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society (1993)
- National Institutes of Health Summer Scholarship Fellowship (1991), for research at the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Southwestern States Medical Colleges Scholarship (1991), for academic excellence during freshman year of medical school
- University of California President's Undergraduate Fellowship (1988) funding for research in organic chemistry
- UC Berkeley National Merit Scholar (1984), four year full tuition merit scholarship

