Recipient of a Humanitas Prize in 2007 for his work as showrunner for NBC's "ER"
Actively participated in the 2007 Writer's Guild of America strike alongside his fellow writers on "ER"
Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1992
Initially a writer, he would land the job as story editor for "Dark Angel" in 2000 and later joined "ER" the following year, a series he would eventually become the showrunner of until it's conclusion