She also has a Doctorate in Family Medicine and is a board certified Nurse Practitioner in Family Practice. On behalf of nurse practitioners in Louisiana she is actively engaged in working with legislative issues to benefit and advance the profession, and she was appointed by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to the Louisiana State Medical Disclosure Panel. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree and her Master’s Degree in Nursing from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans and her Doctorate in Family Medicine degree from University of South Alabama. She earned her Law Degree from Tulane Law School in New Orleans. She is a Tulane University adjunct faculty member who has taught a medical-legal course to paralegal students, for over ten years, in the Tulane School of Continuing Studies. She is the author of Medical Legal Topics in Louisiana Law.