 He then did graduate study in bio-physics and physiology at the University of Kentucky from which he graduated with the successful defense of his MS degree thesis in 1963.The title of his thesis was Calorigenic Response of Warm and Cold-Adapted Rabbits to Intravenous Infusion of Epinephrine and Norepinephrine.He earned his Ph.D. at the West Virginia Medical School, Morgantown, West Virginia (1971) after defending his dissertation Sympathetic Nervous System Control of Renal Hemodynamics.