"I was 14 years old when my older sister and I began our employment history at a Rexall drugstore in Baton Rouge, LA. Mr. Price, our pharmacist, introduced us to the science of pharmacy which stimulated our curiosity about the rest of the medical sciences.
Timing was just right in the world with Billy Jean King beating Bobby Riggs and the Women’s movement was in full swing in this country. It seemed to me that there was nothing a woman could not do!
We set out to become doctors. I graduated from LSU in 1981 with a BS in Biochemistry and a 4.0 GPA. This led me to another great southern institution, University of Virginia, wherein 1985, I earned my MD with honors and met and married the love of my life, Marc A Taylor.
I began training in General Surgery at Georgetown University in 1985. When our two precious daughters, Kiersten and Allyson,support of my family, I returned to surgery and trained for 9 more rigorous years to become a Cardiothoracic Surgeon."
