She completed her surgery training and Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in colorectal surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospitals Cornell University and Columbia Physicians and Surgeons Hospitals. She is an assistant professor of surgery, the director of the Case Acute Intestinal Failure Unit and surgical director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center. Dr. Stein’s clinical interests include the surgical treatment of intestinal failure, Crohn’s disease and colitis as well as general colon and rectal surgery. In addition to her clinical work at University Hospitals, Dr. Stein has served as a surgeon with Medecins sans Frontiers/Doctors without Borders in Southern Sudan and Port au Prince, Haiti.