Matthew Woolard received a Bachelor of Arts degree in the field of Biology from Austin College in Sherman Texas in 1999. He then went to Graduate School at the University of North Texas in Fort Worth and received his Ph.D. in the field of Biomedical Sciences with an emphasis in Immunology in 2004. Dr. Woolard did his Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of Jeffrey Frelinger, Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and joined the faculty at LSUHSC-Shreveport in 2009.