Dr. McNamara received her D.D.S. from the University of Michigan in 2002, and performed general dentistry in private practice until she entered the oral and maxillofacial pathology residency training program at The Ohio State University in 2006. Dr. McNamara earned her M.S. in pathology from OSU in 2009, at which time she joined the OSU faculty. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. In addition to various teaching responsibilities, her activities include clinical consultation for referral patients, participation in the biopsy service, and clinical research with a focus on the role of direct visual fluorescence examination in tumor margin delineation and routine screening for oral cancer.