Joseph M. Lane, MD, was born in New York City and raised in Great Neck, Long Island. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School (1965). General surgical internship and residency were performed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (1965-67). Dr. Lane performed bone collagen research at the NIDR at NIH (USPHS) from 1967-69 in Bethesda, Maryland, under Karl Piez and Edward Miller. He had a collagen research fellowship under Darwin Prochop at the CCRC University of Pennsylvania (1969-70) and a three-year orthopaedic residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania during which time he was awarded the Kappa Delta Award (AAOS) for inhibiting scar formation.