She was raised in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria. She earned her Bachelors in Integrative Neuroscience and Spanish from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She completed her medical school training at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her passion for working with the underserved patient population led her to Bellevue Hospital and she completed her Internal Medicine Residency at New York University (NYU). Following her residency at NYU, she worked as a Hospitalist at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt). There she had a passion for medical education and was appointed the Course Director for the Sophie Davis Physical Diagnosis course.