Mallory is a third year medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and completed her undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology and English with an emphasis on Creative Writing at Colgate University. Prior to medical school she worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she was first exposed to the field of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Stanford has continued to foster her interest in the field. She loves the breadth of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery but is particularly drawn to craniofacial reconstruction and microsurgery. Outside of medicine, Mallory continues to write--especially in the field of narrative medicine where she also mentors patients in their writing at MSKCC--plays the piano, and enjoys spending time with her niece and nephews.