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Dr. Rutar attended Dartmouth College and was named Salutatorian for the graduating class of 1998. She went on to Harvard Medical School, where she received high honors in all core clinical clerkships.

Following an internship in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Boston, she embarked on residency training in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California San Francisco. During her residency training, Dr. Rutar published numerous papers on a range of topics in the peer-reviewed literature, with emphasis on ocular and systemic infectious disease. Dr. Rutar then went on to the Jules Stein Eye Institute of the University of California Los Angeles, where as a Heed Fellowship recipient, she completed fellowship training in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus.

Dr. Rutar joined the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus in the Department of Ophthalmology at UCSF in 2008 with a particular interest in strabismus and pediatric infectious eye disease. She is the director of the Visual Center for the Child, new clinical space for pediatric ophthalmology located at 400 Parnassus Ave., 2nd floor, that opened in 2010. Dr. Rutar is also a member of many professional organizations, including the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS), and she serves as a regular contributor and reviewer for the Journal of AAPOS.