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 worked at Abington Jefferson Health as a general and bariatric surgeon. She is a former associate program director of the Abington Bariatric Fellowship Program and the Director of the Surgery Clerkship and a former general surgery residency associate program director. She has returned to private practice and is the founder and CEO of Surgical Success Specialists. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.