Dr. Hyman received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and his M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1984. He completed his surgical residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, New York, and his colon and rectal fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Hyman is Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed original articles and textbook chapters.

He is Past President of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Director of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, serves as Associate Editor of the Annal of Surgery and the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.

Dr Hyman was selected as Physician of the Year by the Vermont State Medical Society in 2011 and received the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award from the Alumni Association of the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 2014.