Dr. Houtchens received her M.D. degree from the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed her neurology residency at Harvard. She also received a Masters of Medical Sciences degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard School of Public Health. She finished a fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Diseases at Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Dr. Howard Weiner) and established herself as an independent clinical researcher and an expert in the field of Women’s Neurology as it relates to MS patients.