Before coming to Wake 4 years ago, she was the editor of JAAPA, the national PA journal, and is an experienced writer, editor, and manager of medical journals. She has a PhD in English and American literature and has also taught literature and writing to undergraduates. She is the course director for the Graduate Project in the PA Program and co-course director for Sacred 7, a health humanities elective that she and a colleague launched in the summer of 2014. She also teaches narrative medicine sessions within the Being a PA course and directs the Office of Academic Excellence and Writing Center within PA Studies.