She completed her internal medicine residency, chief residency, and nephrology fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She serves as the medical director of the home dialysis program at the Davita Boston dialysis unit, with a particular interest in expanding access to home dialysis within the underserved community. She is also the director of the second year medical student renal pathophysiology course, as well as an associate director of the third year internal medicine clerkship. Dr. Stern also sees patients at the BU Amyloidosis Center and performs research in the field of Amyloidosis.