She graduated from nursing school at the University of Chicago in 2002. Theresa continued her education graduating with her Masters of Science in Nursing, as a Nurse Practitioner, in 2006 while she still was still working at the pediatric ICU at the Rush University Medical Center. Theresa’s previous Nurse Practitioner experience was teaching community health clinical and didactic classes at Rush for undergraduate nursing students and opening urgent care centers that are found in many Walgreens across Illinois now.