Loma Linda University School of Medicine, MD, 1967

Washington Adventist Hospital, Internship-Surgery, 1968

Yale New Haven Medical Center, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1974 and Silas B. Hayes Army Community Hospital, General Surgery, 1969

Yale University School of Medicine, Hand Surgery, 1975, University of Louisville, Orthopaedic Surgery, Hand, 1975, and Yale University School of Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Hand, 1974

Dr. Merlin Hamer - La Jolla

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