Ferguson, specializing in primary and metastatic brain tumors, performs a number of different procedures for her patients, depending on their exact diagnosis. She attended undergraduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and received her masters in cognitive neuroscience. Following that, she attended medical school at the University of Chicago and did a residency in neurosurgery there as well. Afterwards, she spent a year doing a neurosurgical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson, leading to her current work there.