She started her career in Laboratory Medicine as a Medical Technologist, became certified as a Hematology Specialist in 1990, and worked as a Hematology Supervisor and then a General Laboratory Supervisor until she obtained certification as a physician assistant in 2005. She worked at Mayo Clinic in the Vascular Center starting in 2006. She took a detour in 2009-2010 to work as a Hospitalist PA, then Oncology Medicine Hospitalist PA, and then she returned to Vascular Medicine, Thrombophilia Department once again. Her main interest lies in Coagulation. She joined the National Alliance for Thrombosis and Thrombophilia (NATT.org), MN Chapter, serving as a board member in 2008-2009. She also served as a member of the Peripheral Arterial Disease Coalition (padcoalition.org), in Rochester MN, 2006-2009. She enjoys gardening, traveling, learning and teaching, and reading in her spare time.