She graduated from UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing in 2009, and worked full-time as a nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh while obtaining her BSN from Liberty University in 2013 and her Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh’s Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program in 2017. Her doctoral project was completed at Pediatrics South, educating parents of infants on the importance of the Tdap vaccine for close contacts of infants. Her nursing background has strengthened her desire to work with children and their families in the primary care setting, helping to keep kids safe and healthy.