AWARDS/RECOGNITION: Past President, Board of Directors, American Heart Association, Phoenix Chapter; current member of the Board of Directors

Banner Heart Hospital Guardian Award (2012), recognizing key virtues of wisdom, warmth, strength, integrity, gentleness

Teaching faculty Good Samaritan Cardiology Fellowship and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship

UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE: Bachelor of Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (1990); Post-Baccalaurate Premedical Program, Mills College, Oakland, CA (1993)

MEDICAL SCHOOL: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (1998)

INTERNSHIP: Internal Medicine, Baylor Affiliated Hospitals, Houston, TX (1999)

RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine, New York University/Bellevue Hospital (2000); Internal Medicine, Baylor Affiliated Hospitals (2001)

FELLOWSHIPS: Research Fellow, Dept. of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine & Houston VA Hospital’s Dept. of Cardiology, (2003); Cardiology Fellowship, Metrohealth Medical Center of Case Western Reserve University, Heart and Vascular Department, Cleveland, OH (2006); Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Medical College of Virginia – Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VI (2007)

BOARD CERTIFICATION: Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine

Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI)