She is founding director of the New York City Research and Improvement Networking Group (NYC RING) practice-based research network. She completed her undergraduate education at Cornell University, then obtained her MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine (1989). She completed her residency in Family Medicine at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island (1992) and a fellowship in academic family medicine at Montefiore (1996). She was a member of the inaugural class of the Clinical Research Training Program completing her Masters in 2002.