Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Susie Lin received her Doctor of Dental Surgery from NYU College of Dentistry and Doctor of Medicine from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Following residency, she was in full-time private practice for approximately ten years. In 2016, she completed her Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan. Following her fellowship training, she returned to VUMC as a full-time faculty and residency research coordinator.
Her research interests include studying different hypotensive anesthesia techniques in orthognathic surgery with regard to intraoperative blood loss, quality of surgical field, and postoperative nausea and vomiting; the effects of age and presence of third molars on the occurrence of unfavorable splits during sagittal split osteotomy; the use of primary septal cartilage graft for the unilateral cleft rhinoplasty; and intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy with rigid internal fixation – the effects of this procedure on the TMJs and the prevalence of surgical complications.
Dr. Lin is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS) and an active member of AAOMS since 2005. Dr. Lin currently serves as a board examiner in the ABOMS Examination Committee. She is also a reviewer for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.