After receiving her B.S. from Ball State University in Indiana, she went on to obtain her Ph.D. in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Indiana University. After completion of her medical school training at Indiana University, she began an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Baylor College of Medicine (2002-2006), where she was an academic chief resident. During her residency, she was mentored by Dr. Matthew Anderson and studied the role of COUP-TFII in ovarian cancer. For this work, she was awarded the Pritchard Prize for Resident Research from the Texas Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology.