He earned a medical degree from the George Washington University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He completed residency training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is a member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society in the Computing Sciences, the Kane-King-Dodec Medical Honor Society, the William Beaumont Medical Research Honor Society, is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), and is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA).

He has been awarded more than $2,000,000 in grant and contract funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Defense. He has authored more than 70 refereed publications, and has more than 25 years of experience in Clinical Informatics and Scientific Computing with an emphasis on software engineering, clinical decision support, and clinical data mining. He is currently working with the national clinical repository from the Veterans Health Administration, which contains data on more than 35 million patients from roughly 150 medical centers and 800 outpatient clinics. He also works with the EPIC clinical repository from the 14 member hospitals within the University of Maryland Medical System and the Maryland Emergency Medicine Network. His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning, quality improvement in Emergency Medicine, opioid prescribing practices, and online consumer health information.