I attended public school in Salt Lake City and then headed to the University of Utah (go Utes!) for my undergraduate and medical school, graduating in 1974. I did my residency training in general surgery and plastic surgery at UCLA Medical Center (still trying to catch up on sleep from those grueling first years). I completed an additional fellowship in craniofacial surgery under the tutelage of Dr. Henry Kawamoto, one of the world’s leading experts in this field, at UCLA. In January 1986, I began my work in plastic surgery.From 1990 to 1993, in addition to maintaining my private practice, I headed back to school… this time on the other side of the desk. I became a full time member of the faculty of the University of Utah School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Surgery in Plastic Surgery. It was great working in the academic world and having a chance to teach up and coming surgeons my techniques and philosophies.