She is a Wisconsin native who completed her General Surgery training at UC-San Diego, followed by a Colorectal Oncology fellowship at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Colorectal Surgery fellowship at NYP-Cornell Medical Center in New York. She returned to the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2014 where her clinical focus is on minimally invasive and robotic techniques for colorectal surgery, with an emphasis on colorectal malignancies. She is Associate Program Director for the general surgery residency and is Associate Vice Chair for Quality as well as the Patient Safety and Quality Office for the Department of Surgery. Her research investigates alternative strategies to managing postoperative pain and clinical outcomes after surgery. Her program mentor is Lillian Kao, MD MS.