She joined the University of Michigan in 2006 as an Assistant Research Professor, and became an Assistant Professor in 2008. Her research interests include statistical methods for correlated data, novel study design, environmental health, health disparities, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. She earned a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Physics (2000) as well as an MS in Statistics (2001) from the University of Texas at El Paso. She then went on to earn an MS in Biostatistics with a minor in Environmental Health (2003) and a PhD in Biostatistics (2006) from Harvard University.