Her BSN & MSN are from the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Iowa College of Nursing. During her doctoral studies, Dr. Ersig participated in the Graduate Partnership Program at the National Institute of Nursing Research, which afforded her the opportunity to complete her dissertation research at the Social & Behavioral Research Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Ersig also completed a post doctoral fellowship in Clinical Genetics at the College of Nursing.