Dr. John Milligan was born and raised in Jefferson City, Tennessee, where
his father was a general surgeon until 2015. His late grandfather, also
a surgeon, founded the Milligan Clinic in the 1930’s.
He graduated from Webb School of Knoxville in 1994 and then from Mercer
University in Macon, Georgia with a B.S. degree in Economics, and minors
in Chemistry and Biology. He attended Harvard in Cambridge, MA for post-baccalaureate
classes before attending medical school.