Thomas G. Grace is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon who is a native of Portland, Oregon. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans. He has completed a surgical internship at the University of Texas in San Antonio and specialty residency training at the Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Doctor Grace moved to Albuquerque in 1976 to join the faculty of the University of New Mexico Medical School where he taught and practiced orthopaedic surgery. In 1980, he entered full time private practice.