After graduating with his MD from the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Memphis, he pursued his residency at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Before attending medical school, Naylor received his PhD in biochemistry, from UT, where he was a published scientist studying cell biology, musculoskeletal infection, and antibiotic resistance. Naylor is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Southern Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Orthopaedic Research Society, and he is Licensed in the States of Tennessee and North Carolina.