She graduated from the University of Vermont for college and medical school, obtained an MPH in Quantitative Methods at the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed family medicine residency at the University of Washington. Her focus is on improving care for frail and seriously ill older adults. During fellowship she has done work around caregiving patterns after incident disability, temporal trends in caregiving, and the impact of caregiver wellbeing on patient healthcare utilization. Her work on caregiving was published in JAMA. She also partnered with the Hospice of Michigan to conduct a mixed-methods evaluation of a home-based palliative program for seriously ill high utilizers in the Detroit and Flint regions.