After completing a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Dalhousie University, she accepted an MRC-funded post-doctoral research fellowship to work at the University of London (St. George’s Hospital and Royal Free Hospital Schools of Medicine, London, England) from 1989-1993. Before coming to UPEI in 1997, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, University of Saskatchewan, and Principal Investigator in the Saskatchewan Stroke Research Center, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon.