He graduated from the University of Utah Medical School, performed an internship at Irvine California, completed an orthopaedic residency at the University of Utah and finished an orthopaedic fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics and scoliosis surgery at Scottish Rite Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Santora has several articles, presentations, and book chapters to his credit. With more than 20 years of clinical practice he is focusing on scoliosis surgery and international medicine.