She joined the division of hematopathology in 2007 after completing a hematopathology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and a surgical pathology fellowship at Mayo Clinic. She is a co-director of the Metabolic Hematology Laboratory with James D. Hoyer with laboratory emphasis in thalassemias, hemoglobinopathies, red blood cell enzyme and membrane disorders and hereditary erythrocytosis. Additional interests include bone marrow and lymph node pathology.