A native of Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Girton attended a combined program with Otterbein College and The Ohio State University completing both BA and MD degrees in six years.
After completing a family practice residency and becoming board-certified in family practice, he went on to complete an orthopedic surgery residency at Ft. Worth Affiliated Hospitals in Ft. Worth, Texas. He joined the U. S. Air Force, where he attained the rank of major, where he served as an orthopedic surgeon at Scott AFB near Bellville, Ill., and became certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
He later joined the Laser Spine Institute and practiced minimally invasive outpatient spine surgery primarily in the Philadelphia area, where he was featured in Philadelphia magazine’s Top Docs edition and where he was honored as Most Valuable Surgeon for the Laser Spine Institute’s seven national facilities in 2013.