Dr Alea was raised in south Florida. After finishing his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at Baylor College of Medicine, he chose to seek an additional year of training and become Board Certified in the sub-specialty of Pain Medicine at the Indiana University Medical School/IUPUI in Indianapolis Department of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Alea has been practicing minimally invasive interventional pain management since 2003.He then relocated back to south Florida to rejoin his family and start his career in private practice.