She completed medical school at SUNY Stony Brook, Internal Medicine residency and a Master of Science in Public Health degree at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami, and General Internal Medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Her emphasis during fellowship training was HIV clinical care and HIV outcomes research. Since joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, she has received a career development grant from the NIH to study how mental health and substance use disorders affect retention in HIV care and how to address these problems to improve retention. Her other research interests include metabolic and cardiovascular complications of HIV infection. She provides clinical care to a panel of HIV-infected patients at the Johns Hopkins Moore Clinic and precepts Internal Medicine residents at the Internal Medicine Residency Ambulatory Practice.