She joined Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC’s Weight Management and Wellness Center in 2007, where she works with children and adolescents who experience significant weight challenges, and their primary caregivers. Since 2011, she has been working in collaboration with obesity experts and primary care providers to develop an integrated system of hospital and primary care-based pediatric obesity prevention and treatment, a project funded by the Department of Defense, and where she leads program development and clinical training efforts.