After completing her PM&R residency at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke�s Medical Center in Chicago, she completed an electrodiagnostic medicine fellowship at Medical College of Wisconsin/ Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI. She was an attending physician with Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital at Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital for two years and subsequently was an Assistant Professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX for five years. She served as Medical Director at St. Paul University Hospital in Dallas for 2 1/2 years and as Medical Director for Parkland Memorial Hospital's EMG clinic for five years. Gerald Cerniak, M.D.