She held dual appointments at the University of Miami in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Dermatology, working primarily in the area of Pediatric Behavioral Medicine. Her post-doctoral fellowship was in the highly-specialized area of Psychodermatology, the study of emotions, coping and mental health well-being as it relates to having a skin condition or disease. She has long been an advocate for children and families affected by diseases of the skin.