She earned a PhD in Nursing Informatics and Health Systems and is a board Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse. She is an expert in the application of informatics to emergency preparedness, mass casualty triage model validation, and medical outcome measures and the PI on a NIH/NLM study titled Mass Casualty Validation Study (R21LM10833). She supervises undergraduate and graduate research projects related to emergency preparedness, informatics applications in nursing and wound/ostomy issues. She has published and presented papers related to these topics.