She also holds appointments in OHSU’s Department of Neurology and at the Portland VA Medical Center as a staff physician working in the sleep medicine and epilepsy programs. She studies sleep and circadian rhythm influences on the development of alcoholism using imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and optical microangiography. She holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Syracuse University and an M.D. from the SUNY Health Science University at Syracuse.