She sees adults and children from age newborn to 100. Her undergraduate degree is from The University of Virginia. She then received a second bachelors degree in Nursing from The Johns Hopkins University and then received a Masters in Nursing from Georgetown University in 2003. She has worked at Georgetown University Medical Center and at the United States Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She lived, worked and travelled for 7 years in Africa and Asia before joining the Center in 2015.