She received her BSN from UCLA in 1984 and returned to the UCLA School of Nursing to obtain her MN degree specializing in the oncology clinical nurse specialist program in 1988. Upon graduation she worked as a staff nurse on a medical and surgical oncology floor. She worked as a CNS at St Mary’s Medical Center in Long Beach and in 1991 was recruited to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to develop their Bone Marrow Transplant Program, where she currently practices. She interacts with patients, nursing staff, physicians, and other interdisciplinary team members on a daily basis, to ensure quality care to all medical oncology patients.