A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, she is a graduate of Harvard College, and the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed her orthopaedic surgery residency training in Grand Rapids, Michigan at a program affiliated with Michigan State University, and an orthopaedic trauma fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta where she then stayed on as faculty for six more years. She joined the orthopaedic faculty at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases in 2003 where she is actively involved in the teaching and training of orthopaedic residents with a practice focus on the management of both acute and chronic complex fractures.