She received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on skeletal development and the bone marrow hematopoietic niche, and her laboratory is using induced pluripotent stem cells to study osteoblast differentiation in a skeletal complementation model in vivo. In addition to the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, she is the recipient of the Endocrine Scholars Award and Merck Senior Fellow Award from the Endocrine Society, the John Haddad Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, and a Cancer Research Grant from the Mary Kay Foundation.