She completed her medical training at Louisiana State University in 2003. After medical school, she moved to Seattle, WA where she completed an Internal Medicine residency, chief residency and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at the University of Washington. During her time as a NIH T32 Pulmonary and Critical Care research fellow, she completed a Master's degree in Epidemiology where her thesis focused on racial/ethnic disparities in survivorship after Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.