She completed her first post-doctoral internship in Social Medicine at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1992-93) and her second in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University (1993-1995). She holds a Ph.D. (1992) and an M.Sc. (1979) in Nutrition from Université de Montréal. Following her B.Sc. (1970), she received training in dietetics at McGill University (1977). She has been a clinician in private practice, a lecturer in the field of nutrition at McGill and Sir George Williams universities and Loyola College (1979-90), and a researcher in Clinical Nutrition, Public Health and Epidemiology (1984-89).