She trained in clinical epidemiology during her 2 year General Internal Medicine fellowship at UCSF. She completed her internship and residency training in Primary Care, Internal Medicine at UCSF in 1998, and served as Chief Medical Resident at Moffitt-Long Hospital from 1998-1999. She earned her M.D. degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1995 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Davis in 1990.