He graduated in the top 10% of his class from the University of Southern California in 1982, and was elected to the Omicron Kappa Epsilon Honorary Fraternity, the highest honor bestowed on the nation's top dental graduates.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and a member the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, where he studied Advanced Anterior Aesthetics.