She finished her residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and her infectious diseases fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. She is the Associate Director of Hospital Epidemiology and serves as a subject matter liaison to the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL). Her current interests lie in research related to comparative effectiveness of hospital epidemiology practices as well as the impact of emerging diseases on hospitals and surrounding communities. In particular, she is interested in the epidemiology and control of respiratory illnesses in nosocomial settings. Her prior research focused on the effects of the H1N1 pandemic on healthcare workers in New York.