She graduated from Williams College with a degree in literary studies, received her medical degree at Case Western Reserve University, and completed a medicine residency and palliative care fellowship at Stanford. She is medical director of Stanford’s Palliative Care Program and serves as the Stanford site director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. She was recently appointed an associate program director for the Stanford Internal Medicine Residency. She is also a recognized clinical leader at Stanford Hospital, winning the Isaac Stein Award for Compassionate Care from the hospital’s board and serving on the hospital’s ethics committee and multiple quality committees, including as a physician lead on a hospital-wide task force to improve advance care planning.