He earned his medical degree from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland in 2005, and served as a research resident in the Department of Surgery there from 2008 to 2009. He completed his residency in general surgery at Oregon Health and Science University in 2010. Dr. Hwee completed an NIH research fellowship in Oregon Health and Science University’s Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery in 2011, and completed his plastic surgery residency in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida in 2015.