She graduated Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2012, and subsequently completed her internal medicine residency and palliative care fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2016. Throughout her education at UPMC, she received specialized communication skills training under the direction of Dr. Robert Arnold, which instilled in her a passion to improve the quality of clinician communication with patients and families. She found the structured approach to communication skills training very powerful and came to UTSW with a significant drive to share that experience with others. She led an institutional initiative to train 24 multispecialty care providers in a procedural approach to communication skills, with 12 faculty completing an intensive Faculty Development course to provide courses at UTSW.