Professor Sabine Girod is the Chief of the Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Surgery Service at Stanford University, USA. She trained in Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery in Germany and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard Medical School) in Boston.  In 2000 she joined the faculty of Stanford University and is now an Associate Professor of Surgery and Otolaryngology (by courtesy). Her special clinical and research interests are Maxillofacial Surgery and Computer Aided Surgery, especially in reconstruction of complex craniofacial injuries and maxillofacial deformities, including orthognathic surgery, bone replacement, and distraction osteogenesis. She has published extensively in her field and is an invited speaker and teacher nationally and internationally.  Her personal interests are reading, opera, training for triathlons, and volunteering for the AO Foundation to help educate young surgeons all over the world (more about: AO Foundation).