She is a family nurse practitioner who recently completed her PhD in Nursing at Seton Hall University, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson/New Jersey Nurse Initiative Scholar. Her research focuses on medication adherence and family relationships in older adults. She has taught at TCNJ in the grad program on and off for the past several years. While her current clinical practice is in rheumatology, she has primary care experience across all age ranges with additional experience in asthma and reproductive adolescent health.