I earned my undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Colorado in Boulder and earned my medical degree from the University of Colorado Medical School in Denver. I completed my residency in internal medicine from the University of Rochester at Stray Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. I completed a fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 1986. I am a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and worked as a physician at Longmont United Hospital. I returned to practicing internal medicine when I joined Kaiser Permanente in 1996. I have been at the Longmont Medical Offices since then and I am board certified in emergency and internal medicine.