I started my career in nursing at the University of Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York. I obtained professional nursing experience at the New York-Presbyterian/ Weil Cornell Medical Center in New York City as a Neurosurgical intraoperative nurse, then as step-down open-heart nurse. I decided to relocate to Florida in 2005 and worked as an open-heart ICU nurse at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. Several years later I served as the manager and director of the ICU and ER departments. I obtained my Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Barry University in Miami, Florida in 2009 and completed my Doctor of Nursing Practice at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida in 2012. I served in various leadership roles within Nicklaus Children's Hospital Heart Institute from 2011 thru 2022.