[1] He received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University where he was a member of the Lilting Banshees comedy troupe.

[4] He says he was regularly mistaken for a student due to looking younger than his age, and has often been compared to the sitcom teenage genius Doogie Howser.

[4][1] In 2013, he created an online comedy video show about health and lifestyle topics on The Atlantic website called If Our Bodies Could Talk,[7] for which he was a finalist for a Webby award for Best Web Personality/Host[4][8] and was last produced in 2017.

[9][10] He has been named among the 140 people to follow on Twitter by Time, and BuzzFeed has called him "the most delightful MD ever" in response to his work with that show.

In 2016, he served as moderator at the launch of the White House Precision Medicine Initiative where he interviewed President Barack Obama.