She is board certified in Internal Medicine, and a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. She served on the Board of the American Holistic Medical Association for eight years, and as medical director of the Health and Healing Clinic, at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, for three years. A member of the Northern California Advisory Committee on Mindfulness, she has taught Mindfulness to a variety of interested individuals and groups including junior high school students, patients, parents, and corporate executives, and has conducted research on the benefits of Mindfulness for patients with chronic pain and chronic illness. She speaks at conferences, offers courses, and provides holistic medicine consultations to individual patients.