Dr. Hecht is a graduate of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, where she also completed an internship, obtained her DMV, and served as a clinical instructor. She completed a residency in diagnostic imaging at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Dr. Hecht is the editor and coauthor of a German textbook on veterinary radiology and has contributed more than 80 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently a professor of radiology at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine.