Until recently, he was Director of DNA Diagnostics in The Center for Gene Therapy also at Tulane. Dr. Hyland received his Ph.D. in Biology from Temple University. Following post doctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and a prominent connective tissue laboratory located at Thomas Jefferson University, he entered medical school at the latter institution. His medical education was interrupted for one year when he was a recipient of a Fogarty International fellowship. He continued to study connective tissue disorders during this period at the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He subsequently completed a pathology residency and a hematopathology fellowship also at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He is board certified in Clinical Pathology, Anatomical Pathology and Hematopathology.