She received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland and completed a residency in internal medicine-pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She completed fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine in September 2011 and a master’s in clinical and translational research at the University of Cincinnati in December 2012. Her research interests encompass a broad range of issues related to efficient, effective delivery of emergency care to children. Currently, she is leading an improvement team working to design a system that would decrease the time to intervention for patients presenting to the emergency department and has successfully piloted this system with a subgroup of patients.