She completed her gastroenterology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, her internal medicine training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC, and her medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is focused on the role of the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease, and her work has been supported by sources such as the American College of Gastroenterology, the Colton Family Scholar award, the New York Crohn’s Foundation, and the AGA-Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Research Scholar Award in Gut Microbiome Research.