Dr. Lapp was born and raised in New York. He attended college at The Johns Hopkins University and graduated with honors from The State University of New York School of Medicine at Stony Brook. He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine followed by a fellowship in spinal surgery at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Lapp served as chief of adult spine surgery at Tufts-New England Medical Center prior to moving to the Merrimack Valley to create a center of excellence for spine. He has been in practice in the Valley since 2001.