Dr. Chipman completed her general surgery residency at the University of Toledo and went on to complete fellowships in Acute Care Surgery Transition to Practice at Montefiore Medical Center and a Bariatric fellowship at Abington Jefferson Health. She worked in private practice for 3 years initiating their robotic bariatric surgery program, biliopancreatic diversion and duodenal switch, and major revisional bariatric surgery. She has returned to academic medicine and is currently working at Abington Jefferson Health as a general and bariatric surgeon. She is currently the associate program director of the Abington Bariatric Fellowship Program and the Director of the Surgery Clerkship. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.