"New Zealand was a great fit for me because you don't have to sit any entry exams, so it was a seamless move, me coming from the States to Wanganui."
He got to New Zealand via a staffing agency almost two years ago and started with Wanganui Accident and Medical and then at Gonville Health.
"I was splitting time between the two spots before coming here. Getting into a practice like this is fantastic.
"All of my training experience involved community care focus, but sometimes you can get a sense that there are too many patients and not enough doctors, and it can be frustrating for both the patient and the doctor.
"When Andrew approached me, I thought it would be a great opportunity to get in a smaller practice to develop that continuity of care," he said.
He graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and from there he started his medical training in Guadalajara in Mexico at a private university.
"It was an international programme and most of my classmates were either from the US or Puerto Rico.
"I was there four years and did a lot of medical training in Spanish so got a chance to become fluent in another language."
Then came a fifth training year in New York, some residency training and he finished it off with a family medicine programme back in his home city. Two years later he was in Wanganui.
"I love it here in Wanganui. It's a fantastic town. I've met some really nice people and have a girlfriend now."
He's also taken up mountain biking and tramping.