An expert in oral and maxillofacial surgery, she is chief of Stanford’s Oral Medicine and Maxillofacial Surgery Service and director of the Stanford Plastic Surgery Adult Clinic. She received her degree in dentistry from the University of Bonn in Germany and continued her medical training, residencies, and fellowship at Harvard Medical School, the University of Cologne, and Hannover Medical School in Germany. She has been at Stanford since 2000.