Through the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program, she received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and earned a Masters of Science degree from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her public health Master’s thesis used ethnography to examine the process of family reunification of the “disappeared” children of El Salvador. She then completed residency training in pediatrics at Stanford University Medical Center. She came to UCLA in 2012 as a Clinical Scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. During fellowship, she also completed training in health policy and earned a Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.