She holds an MSN in Family/Occupational Nurse Practitioner from UCLA (1998), and an MBA from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks (2005). She has taught for over twenty years in traditional, hybrid and online environments in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. She is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner and is a Department Administrator for Kaiser Permanente overseeing several departments, including Family and Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Pediatrics, Sickle Cell and a Nurse Clinic. Clinically, she practices at the Venice Family Clinic and the UCLA-Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center. Her nursing background includes emergency, critical care, recovery, critical care transport, and med-surg. She joined West Coast University in 2013.