He graduated from the medical school of the University of Connecticut (UCONN). He had previously completed a five-year general surgical residency at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, affiliated with the Tufts University School of Medicine. He then had two years of training in Plastic Surgery at the Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, where he worked in the department as chief resident in his senior year. Dr. Pane is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery.