With honors and receiving numerous awards, Dr. Bolitho attended the University of the Witwatersrand. He completed his residencies at the University of Cape Town in general and plastic surgery, and then proceeded to Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary in the United Kingdom continuing in plastic surgery. His multiple plastic surgery fellowships included hand surgery at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, plastic surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, and surgical oncology at Emory University.