Dr. Pastagia is a native New Yorker whose love for learning was first fostered at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. She went on to complete her undergraduate education at New York University. In 2003, she earned her D.M.D. at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston, graduating magna cum laude. She then made the big move to Seattle where she completed a three year residency program in Periodontics and Dental Implant Surgery at the University of Washington, one of the premier periodontal programs in the nation.