"Graduated from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville With a BA in Theater with a Dance Emphasis
Graduated from University of Houston, CLC with a Master of Arts in Humanities with a Dance Emphasis.
Graduated from Baylor College of Medicine and completed a Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation there as well.
Before medical school, she was a member of a regional ballet company Edwardsville Dance Theatre, a regional modern dance company Concert Dance Company and two musical theater companies, Image Productions and Omega Productions. Omega Productions was the Broadway touring company for "Shenandoah" in 1976 and she choreographed the premier season of Pulitzer prize winning playwright Paul Green's "The Lone Star" in Galveston in 1977. "