Dr. Daniel earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University (Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude) in Nashville. He then served a five year general surgery residency at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals in Atlanta and a two year fellowship at the prestigious University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, finishing in 1991. He came to Eugene in 1999 after eight years of private practice in his home state of Kentucky. Dr. Daniel holds surgery privileges at both area hospitals, and the McKenzie Surgery Center and maintains a private practice, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery located on Country Club Road.