She completed her medical training, residency in internal medicine and fellowship training in infectious diseases at Temple University Medical School. She has been the Hospital Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since 2011 where she led several successful process improvement interventions particularly in the burn intensive care unit for which she won the Armstrong Clinical Excellence Award in Patient Safety in 2015. She is a member of the Maryland Healthcare Associated Infections Advisory Board and teaches the Healthcare Epidemiology course at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests are in the role of the microbiome in preventing healthcare associated infections and burn infections.