She received her master's degree in nursing from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a member of the Oncology Nursing Society, the North American Menopause Society, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She is a collaborating investigator on the "Long Term Follow-Up After Breast Cancer" protocol for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, and she has an active clinical practice within medical oncology, seeing breast cancer patients from diagnosis through survivorship. She recently presented a poster at the 2011 San Antonio Breast Conference, "Barriers to Enrollment in Therapeutic Clinical Trials," and has been invited to speak at the National Consortium of Breast Center's 22nd Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference taking place March 10-14, 2012 in Las Vegas.