Dr. Copeland-Halperin is double board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and American Board of Surgery, is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr. Copeland-Halperin completed her general surgery residency at the Inova Fairfax Medical Center, a large tertiary care hospital in Northern Virginia, where she became Chief Resident for Quality and Safety and served on several hospital committees. She engaged in research on patient safety and quality outcomes in both general and plastic surgery and won awards for research and teaching. She then completed her training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the prestigious Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where she was exposed to the full breadth of plastic surgery, including reconstruction after trauma and cancer, aesthetic and cosmetic surgery, wound healing and correction of congenital deformities. Dr. Copeland-Halperin then pursued advanced training in microsurgery and breast reconstruction at the world-renowned Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She has joined her mother, Dr. Michelle Copeland, in practice in one of the few mother-daughter plastic surgery practices in the country.