He graduated with honors from Cornell University in 1988 and completed his medical education and orthopedic residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he graduated with distinction in orthopedics. Dr. Lyon then completed an additional year of specialty training in trauma after offered a fellowship position in the prestigious R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. During this fellowship year, he gained extensive experience in the care of polytrauma patients and complex intra-articular fractures of the upper and lower extremities along with the pelvis.