She is also the Associate Dean of Education, Curriculum for the University of Utah School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate education at Albion College in Albion, Michigan and went onto complete her medical training at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She has been at the University of Utah since 2000. She completed her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Utah and has been active in the program leadership of the Combined Med-Peds Residency Program since 2004.