She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. In her training, Dr. Haws completed a six-year combined general surgery/plastic surgery residency at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, Illinois in 1997. From there she came to Nashville for a six-month breast and aesthetic fellowship with Nashville Plastic Surgery. After working as an assistant professor of plastic surgery at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Dr. Haws returned to Nashville in the spring of 2002 to join her best friend, Dr. Mary Gingrass, in practice. Dr. Haws and Dr. Gingrass have been friends since 1989, completing the same training program. In 2002, The Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville, "women caring for women," was born.