Ms. Lutz qualified as medical doctor in Germany. She achieved the MD for her doctoral thesis about a treatment form of pituitary adenomas.

She qualified as specialist in general surgery in Cologne and after a short visit at the famous Dept. of Plastic Surgery at the Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow, she continued her training and then qualified as specialist in Plastic Surgery in Germany.

Because of her great interest in reconstructive micro surgery, she then did not seek for a consultant position, but started a microsurgical fellowship at the renowned Dept. of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, in Taipei, Taiwan.

After having returned to Germany she was appointed as Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the University Hospital Hannover.

To emphasize the micro vascular aspects of her work and to continue her research, she eventually accepted a position as Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Sweden, where she stayed until 2005. During this time, Ms. Lutz was mainly responsible for Head & Neck reconstructions as well as for breast reconstructions.