She received her B.A. in Sociology from Rice University and her M.D. from Duke University. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at Duke and a fellowship in Adult and Pediatric Endocrinology at Baylor College of Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer Center. She joined MD Anderson as faculty in 2008. She completed her Executive MBA with Healthcare specialization at Rice University in May 2013, and received the Jones Scholar Award.