She attended Duke University Medical School and then went on to do residency training in neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She did her fellowship training in movement disorders at Albany Medical Center and then was promoted to Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Deep Brain Stimulation. She was recruited by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City to co-direct the Center for Neuromodulation. She now has dual professorships in psychiatry and neurology at the Ohio State University, where she sees patients with movement disorders such as tremor and Parkinson’s disease in the Center for Neuromodulation.