As a native of New England, she did the majority of her training in Massachusetts. After obtaining a BS in Biochemistry at Boston College, she went on to receive her medical degree at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. She then completed a five-year general surgery residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. This was followed by a two-year research fellowship in tissue engineering at the Center for Tissue Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. In 2002, she moved to New York City where she completed a two-year residency in Plastic Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center.