Emilia received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University, her masters from Boston University, her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts, and completed her post-doctoral research in dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Emilia was a Fulbright-Schuman scholar to the European Union, where she studied methods of accelerating medical innovation. Currently, she is also involved in early-stage life science ventures and leads an Artificial Intelligence in Medicine initiative with the Future Society. She is a TEDx speaker, was honored as part of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2017 in Healthcare, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shaper community.