She earned her doctorate in Biochemistry from University of Bombay, India and had fellowships in lipid metabolism at Harvard University and University of California, San Diego. She joined the department of Medicine at OHSU as an NIH fellow. Her research interests are in the pathophysiology of metabolic lipid disorders (hypercholesterolemia, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis) and evaluation of clinical options for treatment of these patients by diet and drugs.