Dr. Pederson, a native Texan, took his premedical training at the University of Texas. In 1978, he received his MD degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He took both his internship and residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Dr. Pederson fine tuned his medical education with Plastic Surgery training at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, with a hand surgery fellowship in Louisville, Kentucky, and a fellowship in Microsurgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

He is a member of numerous medical and surgical professional organizations and a participant in national and local committees in his field. The author of dozens of textbook chapters and journal publications, Dr. Pederson is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Hand Surgery and the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. Prior to joining the Hand Center, Dr. Pederson was Head of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and served on the faculty of Duke University Medical Center.

In recognition of his many contributions to the field, Dr. Pederson was elected by his peers to be President of the American Society of Microsurgery Reconstruction in 2006-2007. He has also been selected as one of three Visiting Professors by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand for 2011.

Dr. Pederson's clinical interests include the management of vascular problems in the upper extremity, nerve injuries, difficult bony nonunions, facial paralysis, and the area of complex microsurgical reconstruction.
He enjoys music, photography, cooking, and spending time with his family.