After spending my formative years in northeast Oklahoma, and graduating with a music degree from Southern Nazarene University, I graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1995.  A scholarship from the United States Air Force made medical school possible, and I served for five years as a USAF Flight Surgeon before moving to Albuquerque in 2001.   I completed Internal Medicine residency at the University of New Mexico in 2004 and a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine, also at UNM, in 2009.  I maintain board certification in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.

 

My professional life has led to expertise in the complexities of internal medicine, especially in older adults.  I have worked as a Geriatrics faculty member with the Senior Health Clinic at the University of New Mexico; a hospitalist in the Lovelace Hospital System, a hospice medical director;  and as a post-acute and transitional patient care physician in skilled nursing facilities.