She completed her doctoral training/internship at Vanderbilt and Yale in 1987/1988 and her postdoctoral training at Duke Medical Center, Dept. of Psychiatry in 1989. She served as Associate Dean of Students at the University of Michigan (UM) for six years (until 2007) where she was responsible for university-wide critical incident management, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center and Services for Students with Disabilities. As Chair of UM's Mental Health Work Group from '02-