She received her dental surgery degree from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry in Nashville, Tennessee. Afterward, she completed post-doctoral training in the Department of General Dentistry, and a second year of training with a focus in geriatrics at Eastman Department of Dentistry University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, she completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the Traveler’s Center on Aging at the University of Connecticut in Farmingtom, CT.