Jonathan graduated from A&M in 2003 with a degree in Biology with University Honors. While at A&M, he was a member of MSC Hospitality and participated in a six month reciprocal exchange program to Lancaster University, UK, where he performed microbiology research. After A&M, he attended UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas, where he was the Vice President of his medical school class. Jonathan moved in Riverside, California, where he finished the last six months of his residency in Emergency Medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He married in April 2011 and moved back home to Lindale, Texas, where he took his first attending physician position at Trinity Mother of Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas.