Dr. Pelletier received his medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, in 1996. He completed his general surgery residency in 2003 at the University of Virginia. Dr. Pelletier went on to complete a two-year fellowship in transplantation surgery at the University of Michigan Health System, and in 2005, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan. In 2007, he became the assistant director of the Multi-disciplinary Liver Tumor Clinic at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, MI. A year later, he became the surgical director of liver transplantation at the University of Michigan.