She has a Ph.D in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters of Science in Statistics from the University of Idaho. She furthered her training as a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and University of Utah. Her primary research interest is kidney and cardiovascular genetic epidemiology. Her research involves identifying novel genomic variants for kidney function and related outcomes, disease-gene associations for end stage renal disease in African Americans, developing epidemiologic and statistical methods for genomic data, improving clinical decision based on individual’s genetic and lifestyle profiles.