She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Molecular Biology from Brigham Young University, and Summa Cum Laude with a Master’s of Science Degree as a PA from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Medical School. She was the William D. Stanhope scholar of her class (highest GPA). She graduated in 1999 and began her career in emergency medicine, before finding her true love, dermatology. When not working, she spends her time with her husband and two children, as often as possible in the great Colorado outdoors.