In all of these professional positions, her main passion is to remain a strong advocate for her patients’ rights. “My passion is to help my patients in outstate and rural Minnesota attain the best possible healthcare and to achieve total health that heals their entire body! Proud to grow up on a grain and hog farm in SW Minnesota, I witnessed the need for this in my community and I now feel blessed after 11 years of post-high school orthodontic education (my farming parents called it lunacy) that I have the opportunity to make a more positive impact in the lives of my patients both in my private practice and in our great USA.” Dr. Lein advocates at state, regional and Washington D.C. levels as a proponent for raising the cap on flexible spending accounts and to improve employee benefits of health savings accounts to allow all patients to make wise healthcare spending decisions. She lobbies to advance legislation that would reduce student loan debt and allow graduate students to defer their loan interest payments until after graduation. Dr, Lien works to advance bills in Congress that would assure that preventative medical and dental care is available to children everywhere.

Dr. Lien donates her time and expertise to organizations such as Smiles Change Lives, Donated Orthodontic/Dental Services, Give Kids a Smile and Mission of Mercy where qualified children, disabled individuals, and adults are given free care.

Her husband, Dale is a mechanical engineer at Gauthier Industries in Rochester. Dr. Lien is extremely proud of her children including her son, Aaron who is a chemist and supervisor at Upsher Smith Pharmaceutical in Maple Groce, MN. Daughter, Ana is a Family Physician completing her Rural Family Practice Residency at Mayo Clinic, LaCrosse, WI.

Hobbies: Fishing, boating, gardening and canning vegetables, salsa and jams; volunteering for her church and woman’s shelters; playing the piano; embroidery, quilting, and sewing.