International Parenting Speaker and Writer

Family Medicine Attending Physician at the Squirrel Hill Health Center

Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh SOM, Department of Family Medicine

Board of Directors, Jeremiah's Place - Pittsburgh's First Relief Nursery
June 2011 - current
Grants Chair for her son's school

Professional American Sign Language Interpreter
1995-2000

Professional Stage Manager, (member Actor's Equity Association)
1990-1995

Family Medicine Resident Physician, Women's Board Scholar
July, 2000 - June, 2003
Abington Memorial Hospital and Abington Family Medicine

Doctor of Medicine with Certificate of Concentration in Disabilities Medicine
May, 2000
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Fine Arts with University and College Honors, Andrew Carnegie Scholar
May, 1992
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

American Board of Family Medicine Board Certified
since July 2003

Pittsburgh Magazine 40 Under 40 Award 2009

Award for Excellence in Clinical Precepting
March, 2010
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine September, 2008

Women's Board Scholar
2003
Abington Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Award

Gold Standards Award
November, 2002
Abington Memorial Hospital

Bristol Myers Squibb Award for Graduate Medical Education
October, 2002
American Academy of Family Physicians (formerly Mead Johnson Award)

Dorothy C. Scott Humanitarianism in Medicine Award
May, 2000
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship
May, 1998 - May, 2000
Awarded based on involvement in the arts

Albert Schweitzer Fellow
May, 1998 - May, 1999
Pittsburgh Schweitzer Fellows Program

American Academy of Family Physicians
1996 - present

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
2001 - 2006

Greater Pittsburgh Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
1995 - 2000

Actor's Equity Association
1992 - 1996