She started her career as a registered nurse in 1985 and served 3 years active duty air force which allowed her to experience military triage and air transport. She completed her FNP training in 1999 and she has worked in a wide range of settings including Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Psychopharmacology, Interventional Radiology, GI Surgery, Bleeding Disorders and Hemophilia Treatment, Nuclear Cardiology and, currently, she works in the Heart and Vascular center performing cardiac stress testing.