She began her nursing career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City working on various units as a staff nurse. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her Master of Science in Nurse Anesthesia at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences Center. She received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice with a specialization in Anesthesiology at Barry University in the augural class in 2014.