Larry Dean Bucshon, M.D., was born in Taylorville, Illinois, on May 31, 1962, and raised in Kincaid, Illinois.
He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois Medical School at Chicago. He completed a residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he served as chief resident in surgery, and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery.