Dr Dott is a medical graduate of Columbia University in New York City . He also has a Masters in Public Health degree from Tulane University.  He is Board Certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Preventative Medicine.He completed his advanced training at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

His special interest is organizing health care services for immigrant women and children.  He first visited the Spanish speaking world many years ago when he worked in a hospital in Chimaltenango, Guatemala.  Since than, he has made several trips to Mexico and Spain.  He continues to struggling improving his Spanish so that he will speak real Spanish and not "Spanglish".