During his tenure at UVM, he also worked in the Athletic Medicine Department as team physician for the intercollegiate athletic squads. After graduating cum laude with a B.A. from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1983, he attended the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1987. Dr. Sopher completed a three-year residency in family practice in the Middlesex Memorial Hospital Family Practice program in Middletown, Connecticut in 1990.