She obtained her undergraduate degree in Biology from the American University of Beirut prior to attending the University of North Texas for a graduate degree in Forensic Genetics and Baylor College of Medicine for a Ph.D. in Molecular and Human Genetics. She later joined Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow and worked there as an instructor in the Division of Genetics and Genomics. Her most recent work focuses on identifying novel genes in autism spectrum disorder and deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying the disease, with a specific interest in leveraging shared ancestry and genomics to identify recessively inherited mutations and modeling these mutations in mouse.