 Shortly after graduating from Marquette University she began her nursing career at Northwestern and became a part of the hospital’s management team in 1996.She was instrumental in the planning and construction of the new hospital which opened in 1999.With construction beginning in 2015 and completed in 2019, the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center is a 600,000 square foot building on the hospital campus that houses laboratories dedicated to biomedical research.