Dr. Shaun C. Hafner is from New York State's Hudson Valley. As a young man, he obtained the Eagle Scout award. He attended Potsdam College where he played on the collegiate soccer team and received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry. He obtained his doctorate from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. Dr. Hafner completed an intense residency training in reconstructive foot and ankle surgery at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, the primary teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Connecticut.