Originally from Los Angeles, I attended college at the University of Chicago and carried on eastward to complete my medical degree at Harvard Medical School. I completed adult psychiatry residency at NYU, as well as a clinical and research fellowship in addiction psychiatry at Columbia University.

In addition to my practice, I serve as the medical director for an intensive outpatient program for substance use disorders at the Manhattan VA Medical Center, and am a clinical assistant professor at NYU where I mentor and supervise junior doctors.