She received her PhD in Epidemiology at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, and focused her post-doctoral work on occupational exposures related to hematopoietic cancers in adults. She was a Visiting Scientist at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, expanding her research on secondary cancers following treatment for a primary cancer, and environmental risk factors of lung cancer in China. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, working on environmental and genetic factors of childhood leukemia in California and within the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC).