MD from the University of North Carolina and completed Pediatrics residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She completed Clinical Genetics residency training and served as Chief Resident in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty as Assistant Professor. She is a long-standing member of the American Society of Human Genetics, having won an ASHG Reviewer’s Choice Abstract Award for her work on growth retardation in Kabuki syndrome 1, and she currently serves on the ASHG Program Committee, on the editorial board of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, on multiple rare disease medical and scientific advisory boards, and on a National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) working group. She has received a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award, a Musculoskeletal Pilot and Feasibility Award, a William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation Award, the Margaret Ellen Nielsen Fellowship Award, and a prestigious Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award. Her research is supported by a National Institutes of Health K08 Career Development Award, a Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund Launch Award, and a Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award.