She received her undergraduate degree in biology with a minor in psychology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology then earned her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Nelson completed her neurology residency at Tufts Medical Center followed by fellowship training in neurocritical care at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2016. She currently has diverse clinical research interests in the fields of neuroimaging, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, and ischemic stroke.