Dr. Ladd graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB in History, received her MD from SUNY Upstate Medical University, completed Orthopaedic Residency at the University of Rochester, and completed the Harvard Combined Hand Surgery Fellowship. She was a fellow at L'Institut de la Main in Paris, France prior to joining the Stanford University faculty in 1990.
Dr. Ladd specializes in hand and upper extremity surgery. She is a professor and chief of the Robert A. Chase Hand and Upper Limb Center at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., and the chief of the Children’s Hand Clinic at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. She also is vice-chair of academic affairs for the Department Orthopaedics and assistant dean for medical student advising at Stanford.