• He received his BA degree from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT in 1971 and
• His MD/PhD degrees from the Medical Scientist Training Program at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1978 under the tutelage of the late Dr. Henry S. Kaplan.

His major research interests include the

• Study of the human malignant lymphomas 
• Leukemias 
• Use of monoclonal antibodies for the diagnosis and therapy of human solid tumors.

• Upon graduating Medical School, he won the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Research Fellowship from the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund to study in the laboratory of Dr. Theodore Puck at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.  
• When he was in Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Oncology where he was awarded the Junior Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society and the prestigious Searle Scholar Award. 

• He currently is the holder of 30 patents, has published over 165 articles in the field of cancer research, and is the inventor of several monoclonal antibodies for the immunotherapy and immunodiagnosis of cancer.