She has served as an obstetrician-gynecologist on several Doctors Without Borders (MSF) missions, including in Irbid, Jordan, and in South Sudan. Veronica has also previously worked for one year at a rural district hospital in Uganda while doing research on malaria in pregnancy. She is originally from New York City, graduated from Wellesley College and received her medical degree from the State University of New York at Downstate in Brooklyn, New York. She did her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.