Dr. Pi?a-Garza earned his medical degree from Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico, and worked in Social Service for the Department of Pediatrics at University's Hospital in Monterrey. He served a rotating internship at University's Hospital then completed a Pediatric Residency at Children's Hospital of Austin at Brackenridge. He continued his post-doctoral training at Vanderbilt University as a neurology resident with special qualification in Child Neurology. He became a clinical instructor for the division of Child Neurology and a Neurophysiology/Epilepsy fellow in the Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt.