Dr. Hardaway is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine, with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Michigan. She completed her residency in the general surgery department of North Shore University hospital (formerly an affiliate of Cornell Medical Center in New York, now an affiliate of NYU), as well as a plastic surgery residency at Nassau County Medical Center in New York, and a burn fellowship at Wayne State University. She was Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and director of the burn center at Detroit’s Receiving Hospital.