Dr. Trochesset is jointly appointed in the Departments of Pathology and Dermatology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Dr. Trochesset is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry. She completed a one year General Practice Residency at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center in Connecticut prior to working in private practice for ten years. Dr. Trochesset left private practice to pursue her interests in oral pathology. She completed a three year residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology prior to joining the Stony Brook faculty.