She graduated medicine from the University of New South Wales with first class honours and gained a Master of Medicine in Ophthalmic Science at University of Sydney, during which she wrote a treatise on retinal vein occlusions. She completed her ophthalmology training through the Sydney Eye Hospital program including training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Liverpool Hospital. She also performed outreach programs to rural Northern Territory based from Royal Darwin Hospital. This was followed by further training in complex cataract surgery and acute ophthalmology at Concord Hospital during her fellowship year. She underwent a medical retina fellowship in Sydney as a Bayer Medical Retina Fellow. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and dedicates time to ongoing research, with current projects in diabetic retinopathy and optical coherence tomography angiography.