Dr. Hai is a board-eligible periodontist who received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery with Honors at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She then went on to complete an Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency at the UCLA Venice Dental Center and a Periodontics Specialty at the UCSF School of Dentistry where she also received a Master’s in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences. Dr. Hai served as the program director of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency Program at UCLA Venice Dental Center and and now continues to enjoy teaching residents part-time. She has received numerous awards including the California Society of Periodontists Outstanding Graduate Research Award and the Global Oral Health Research Fellowship for her research on antibiotics in periodontics, which is published in the Journal of Periodontology.