She is a faculty fellow in the Center for Innovative Pharmacy Solutions, having previously served as team leader of the CIPS Knowledge Enterprise. Trained at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, she received her PharmD in 1987 and completed an ASHP-accredited pharmacotherapy residency in adult internal medicine at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and Truman Medical Center. She completed her Masters of Science in Clinical Research with emphasis in epidemiology in 2014.