1969
Is born in New York, NY.
1992
Earns a Bachelor of Science in biomedical science, magna cum laude, at the City College of New York.
1993
Earns a Rita Kersingbaum Award for Academic Excellence and a Holman Scholarship for Minority Students.
1994
Earns an MD at the NYU School of Medicine; Undertakes a residency in general surgery at SUNY Buffalo until 1999.
1995
Is a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps until 1999.
2001
Receives an Army Achievement Medal.
2005
Undertakes a trauma and critical care fellowship at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine until 2007.
2007
Is a burn consultant, trauma surgeon and intensivist at the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, until 2009.
2008
Is an associate program director at the Brooke Army Medical Center until 2013.
2010
Is a burn consultant and trauma surgeon at Camp Dwyer in Afghanistan until 2011.
2013
Is the clinical division director of the U.S. Army Burn Center at Brooke Army Medical Center until 2018.
2016
Authors chapters on thoracic trauma, major burns and smoke inhalation, and vascular access in General Surgery Examination and Board Review.
2018
Is the trauma medical director at the Womack Army Medical Center until 2020; Receives a Legion of Merit.
2019
Is the trauma director and chief medical officer at the 528th Hospital Center in Baghdad, Iraq, through today.
2020
Is a professor of burn surgery, the chief of burns and the medical director of the burn ICU at the University of North Carolina through today; Receives a second Legion of Merit.
2022
Co-authors several articles in the Journal of Burn Care & Research.
2023
Is the interim division chief of acute care surgery at the University of North Carolina until today.