She has become a well-recognized and regarded presence in the lives of many people on the North Shore of Boston because of her extensive surgical experience, her reputation for compassionate and understanding care, and for her artistry as a plastic surgeon. She is unique to the world of surgery because of a first career in art and book publishing, attributes of which have given her an eye and perspective particularly keen to plastic surgery, an artful science. She was voted one of the top ten plastic surgeons in Massachusetts in 2007 and received a faculty award for excellence and graduate of distinction from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.