I am a Colorado native. After earning a degree in French and then a Masters in speech pathology, I worked with adults with head injuries, strokes, tumors, laryngectomy, etc. I became interested in neurology and went to medical school at University of California, Los Angeles, to pursue a medical career. During that process, I found psychiatry to be the most interesting field of all and returned to Denver to complete my residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.