She received her medical degree from the University of Rochester after completing her undergraduate training in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Rainbow Babies’ and Children’s Hospital-Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and her Adolescent Medicine fellowship at the University of Rochester. While in her fellowship, she also completed the Leadership Training Academy through Physicians for Reproductive health, a year-long intensive advocacy training for physicians involved in sexual and reproductive health care. She joined the faculty in 2014.