Lamont Cardon was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He came to the Bay Area after receiving a football scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from Cal in 1988 with a degree in Microbiology and Immunology. After spending a year performing research at UCSF he attended The Chicago Medical School, N. Chicago, Illinois. He received his MD degree in 1993. He completed his Residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. As part of his residency, he spent two months studying at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, and four months at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE.Dr. Cardon furthered his studies by completing a fellowship in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery at The CV Starr Hand Surgery Center in New York. It was there that he trained under the guidance of Drs. Richard Eaton, Steven Glickel, Alton Barron, Vincent Fietti and Ben Rosenstadt. He was also fortunate to interact with Professor William Littler, one of the founders of Hand Surgery. In addition to the one year Hand Fellowship, he spent several months as a traveling fellow. He studied Microsurgery with Roberto Adani at the Policlinico di Modena, Modena, Italy. He then traveled to Japan where he continued his Microsurgical training with Katsutero Doi at Ogori Daiichi Hospital in Ogori, Japan, and with Satoshi Toh at the Hirosaki University Hospital, Aomori, Japan. He spent 2 months focused on Pediatric Hand Surgery at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas TX with Drs. Mary Beth Ezaki and Peter Carter.
Dr. Cardon is an Orthopaedic Overseas Volunteer who has volunteered in Thimphu, Bhutan, May 1996 and Sept 2000 and Phnom Penh, Cambodia at the Sihinouk Hospital in February 2002. He also volunteered with the SIGN intramedullary nail program in Hanoi, Vietnam in Jan 2005. He served with Operation Rainbow in Hue Hue Tenango, Guatemala in November 2005 and in Machala, Ecuador in May 2006. In January 2007 he traveled with the Philippine Medical Society of Northern California to Naga City, Philippines and in late 2007 to the AIMS hospital in Kochi, India. In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, Dr. Cardon joined the Partners-in-Health team in August of 2010 at Saint Nicholas Hospital in St. Marc Haiti, he returned to St. Nicholas hospital in March of 2013. He has since been active with Operation Rainbow with trips to Hue Hue Tenango, Guatemala in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2024 and Cuenca, Ecuador in April 2023. In 2019, he performed over a dozen elbow reconstructions for malunited fractures in children in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
