Dr. McLean-Holden earned her DMD at Oregon Health and Science University School of Dentistry in 2011, where she held a scholarship with the National Health Service Corps. She practiced public health dentistry in New Mexico for five years. Dr. McLean-Holden completed her residency in oral and maxillofacial pathology at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry in Dallas, Texas, in 2019.  She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and earned certification by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology that same year. Annie spent a year at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as research assistant to Dr. Justin Bishop while finishing her Master’s of Science degree at Texas A&M. She is currently an Instructor of Head and Neck/Endocrine Pathology at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.