He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice in 1990 with the Red Diploma of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Applied Sciences Košice. He graduated in Internal Medicine 1st degree in 1993, in 2000 he obtained a specialization in Communicable Diseases (Infectology), in 2006 he obtained a specialization in Management and Financing in Healthcare. For 10 years he worked as the primary of the Clinic of Infectology and Travel Medicine of the University Hospital L. Pasteur Košice. For 8 years he was a regional expert of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for Infectology and Tropical Medicine for the Košice Regional Municipality.