She attended Hamilton College and Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her family practice training at the University of Rochester. She has been a family practitioner in Oneonta, NY for twenty years. She practices both inpatient medicine and outpatient primary care through Fox Hospital/Bassett Health Care Network and is committed to providing adult and pediatric gender medicine as a routine part of primary care. She is the collaborating physician for Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW and Choices Counseling and Consulting.