Yay. Okay. Here's my first question. What made you decide to go into plastic surgery? And did you always know that that was the career for you?

I have always loved head and neck surgery. So I began with the, with the idea that I love the

anatomy of the human face. This is like the most complex and beautiful anatomy. And it's just very

artistic area. So I loved art and I wanted to take that into medicine, and plastic surgery is the ideal

place for that.

Awesome.

That's so true.

And can you talk a little bit about your education journey into becoming a doctor for

those who are thinking of going into medical school?

It was a long journey.

I started out wanting to be an English major, and I still love writing in art, and that's

like a big part of me.

So it was really challenging in college because you have to take all these pre-med prerequisites,

and that felt like it was drowning out the creative part of me and taking up all my time and

having to

excel in that was very difficult. But eventually ended up minoring in some of the things that I

really enjoyed. So I took enough econ classes actually to get kind of a little bitty mini minor in

that. And I always took a lot of writing classes. But then I think my love of science is what kind of drove me towards medicine.

So you have to have inside of you some kind of passion for loving anatomy or physiology

or how the body works because otherwise it's just too much of a grind, I think.

And it's a long process.

It's four years college, four years med school, five years,

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