Previously she taught at the Rafic Hariri School of Nursing at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon for 6 years. Prior to that she taught clinical nursing for 16 years at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. She holds a bachelor’s degree, MSN, and WHNP from the University of California in San Francisco in women’s health. She obtained her PhD in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin.