Dr. Matthew Thorson grew up on a farmstead near West Fargo, North Dakota. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota. He earned his Doctorate in Medicine at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. After a Transitional Year Residency at the University of North Dakota/Meritcare in Fargo, N.D. he entered his residency in Anesthesiology at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE. For more advanced training he transferred to the University of Florida Anesthesiology Residency Program.

He then entered the Fellowship program in Pain Medicine at the University of Iowa School of Medicine in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Thorson is board certified in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology.