Her background is in medical imaging physics with over 15 years of experience in development of acquisition sequences and analysis software tools for clinical and translational breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. She is an active member of several professional societies including the Radiological Society of North America and International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the ACRIN-ECOG multi-center trial network breast committee. She serves as a scientific reviewer for a number of research funding organizations including the NIH, Komen and DOD Breast Cancer Research Program. A primary focus of her work is the investigation of diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) to improve breast cancer detection and diagnosis.