She received her medical degree from University of Chicago, Pritzer School of Medicine in 2006. She then finished her pediatric residency at Northwestern's Lurie Children's Hospital in 2009 and has been working as a pediatric hospitalist in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2009 and started at Kaiser Permanente in June 2016. Dr. Manning went into pediatrics because she loves kids and was interested in learning about the medical conditions that affect them.