Doctorate, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
	Dissertation: A structurally guided constitutive model for aortic valve bioprostheses: Effects of glutaraldehyde treatment and mechanical fatigue. Advisor: Michael S. Sacks, Ph.D.

Masters , Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania 1992
	Advisor: Lawrence E. Thibault, Sc.D.

Bachelors , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1991
	With distinction