She is a board certified Emergency Physician as well as Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She has been an active educator with a focus on end-of-life care, patient-doctor communications and ethics. She holds a strong interest in novel curriculum design and teaching methodologies for both undergraduate and graduate medical trainees within emergency medicine and palliative care. Her most recent academic research interests include cancer symptom evaluation and outcomes in the emergency department setting and is the Principal of the Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care – Emergency Medicine (EPEC-EM) initiative funded by the National Cancer Institute to create a national palliative medicine curriculum for emergency physicians.