 degree in 1975 from the University of Michigan Medical School, and in 1978 completed his Family Medicine Residency at the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals in Salt Lake City, Utah.In 2002 he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, formerly known as the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Sciences.He served as a member of national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program.