She received her B.S.N. from University of San Francisco, her M.N, with a specialty in neuroscience nursing, from the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Habermann also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington with a focus on family and caregiving. She worked as an advanced practice nurse for several years in Neurology and was the coordinator of a designated Parkinson’s Center.