She completed her undergraduate degree at University of Alberta, followed by Medical School and Orthopedic Residency at University of Calgary. She then went on to complete fellowships in Pediatric Orthopedics and combined Adult/Pediatric Limb Reconstruction (Limb Deformity) in Melbourne, Australia through Royal Children's Hospital and various adult centres, where she acquired expertise in limb lengthening and deformity correction using Taylor Spatial Frame as well as other devices. Carrie was the first surgeon in Canada to perform a leg lengthening using the 'Precice' lengthening nail (remote controlled) in 2014.