B.S., University of Southern Mississippi College of Science and Technology, Hattiesburg, Miss., 1995.
M.D., Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La., 1999.

Residency/Fellowship: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (anatomic and clinical pathology), 1999-2003; (chief resident), 2002-2003; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (neuropathology), 2003-2004; Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Dallas, Texas (forensic pathology), 2004-2005.

Certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology and in Forensic Pathology.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, Assistant Professor of Pathology, 2005-2011; Associate Professor, 2011-2018; Professor, 2018-2019; Assistant Residency Director, Department of Pathology, 2005-2009; Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Dallas, Texas, Director, Forensic Pathology Fellowship Program, 2011-2019; Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, 2014-2019.

Appointed to the staff of Mayo Clinic, 2019; Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2022-present; associate residency program director, 2021-present; co-director, Autopsy Service, Division of Anatomic Pathology, 2021-present.