She received her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Toronto in 2003 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rotman. She has published extensively on the topic of memory in the healthy and damaged brain and has received numerous awards for her neuroimaging and patient research. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre.