Chad received his B.S. in Human Physiology from Boston University in 2004. During his undergraduate study at BU he completed his Work for Distinction (undergraduate thesis) in the Laboratory of Dr. Helen Barbas. He wrote his thesis on the quantitative architecture of the motor, premotor, and cingulate motor areas in the rhesus monkey. After completion of his undergraduate studies Chad matriculated into the M.D./Ph.D. program at Boston University School of Medicine. He has now completed the first two years of the medical school curriculum at BU, and transitioned into graduate study in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. He is currently researching changes in the cerebrovasculature of the rhesus monkey that occur with hypertension and aging under the direction of Dr. Todd Hoagland.