LOUIS SIEGEL, M.D. graduated from the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering with the degree Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Electrical) and from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry with the degree Doctor of Medicine-with Distinction in Research. He has published widely in journals of biomedical engineering, medicine, surgery, and the behavioral sciences.

To complete his post-graduate education, and lighten the prose of his otherwise dark writing, he graduated from the Sarasota, FL McCurdy's Comedy Institute stand-up comedy course. One reviewer said his act was unfettered by either humor or laughter.