Rob completed his doctor of allopathic medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, his pediatric residency at the Greenville Hospital System (now known as Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital), and fellowships at the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education (ORISE) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and pediatric cardiology at the Children's Hospital of Michigan.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, NC.