Dr. Edward C. Friedland, MD was born, raised and educated in New York City, and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1953. He received his BA degree from New York University in 1957, and his MD degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in 1961. Following medical school, Dr. Friedland served a one year internship at Maimonides Hospital, followed by a one year general surgical residency at the Veterans Administration Hospital, both in Brooklyn, NY. He then served two years as a medical officer in the US Air Force. On completing his military tour, Dr. Friedland moved to New Jersey, where he finished an orthopaedic surgical residency at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson. He has been in the active practice of orthopedic surgery here in New Jersey since August 1968.