She completed her internal medicine residency and geriatrics fellowship & chief fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She received her B.S.from University of Virginia and her MD from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was AOA. She has been very involved in medical education, developing and assessing the effectiveness of new curricula and evaluating learner attitudes. She also sees patients in the ambulatory geriatrics practice at Northwestern for primary care and consults.