Her overall career goals are to provide exceptional care to patients with autoimmune disease and study the clinical immunology of autoimmune disease, with a focus on type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Her research interests are to screen children in the general population for islet autoantibodies (early T1DM), hone techniques to study immune cells that participate in the pathogenesis of T1DM, and participate as an investigator in prevention trials.