He completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Missouri, and graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha and Cum Laude honors. During his education he completed research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Iowa. He went on to complete a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Brown University as well as a fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma. During his training at Brown, he studied wrist injuries (fractures/ligament tears) as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona. Dr. Kamal then completed a second fellowship in Hand, Upper Extremity, and Microvascular Surgery at Duke University.