She obtained her medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed her medicine residency at Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. She has recently completed a combined clinical Infectious Diseases and HIV Research fellowship at Brown with a research focus on retention in care for HIV infected minority women. She is also sub-investigator of The Miriam's Hospital AIDS Clinical Trial Unit, and works as a clinical consultant for the Clinton Foundation's Health Access Initiative expanding antiretroviral therapy care and treatment in Indonesia.