She received her B.A. from the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2000, and her M.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Weill Cornell Medical College-NY Presbyterian Hospital in New York, NY, and received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. She served on the Full-Time Faculty in the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders from 2010 to 2016 and as Director of Research in the unit from 2011 to 2016.