Dr. Ackerman received her M.D. from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. After receiving her M.D., Dr. Ackerman did an internship in internal medicine at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Ackerman started her residency in radiology in 1992 at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed her residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1996. Afterwards, she did a fellowship in women’s imaging at the University of South Carolina in 1997. She has been a faculty member of the Department of Radiology since then.