Dr. Evans completed her medical degree at the Medical University of South Carolina, and both a residency and Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia. She is board-certified in both pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. Other career highlights include doctoral studies in biochemistry at VCU and work on rotavirus vaccine trials. Prior to returning to South Carolina, Dr. Evans served as the Associate Residency Program Director in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California – Davis (UCD). She was also the Assistant Director of Instruction for Pediatrics and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care at UCD during that time.