A graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis, he completed a general surgery residency at Emory University in Atlanta and at St. Francis and Veterans Hospital in Wichita, Kan. Stanley is board certified in general surgery, vascular surgery and vascular medicine. He also trained in the evaluation and treatment of chronic, non-healing wounds at The Hyperbaric and Wound Healing Center at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia, S.C. Stanley is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, past president of the International College of Surgeons-U.S. section, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Angiology.