Captain Kauvar graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 2002. She received a Health Professions Scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine. In 2006, she earned the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine and reentered active duty as a captain in the Air Force. She matriculated to a post-doctoral residency in periodontics at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Concurrently, she worked towards an MS from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed both programs in June 2009. She received the 2009 John F. Prichard Prize for graduate research from the Southwest Society of Periodontists and has been designated a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. She is currently stationed at Hill Air Force Base and lives with her husband in Salt Lake City, Utah.
