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Expert is board certified in Pediatrics. She attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. She completed her Pediatric Residency at the Children's Hospital of Austin. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has a special interest in childhood asthma, nutrition, and patient education, mental health issues, asthma in adolescents, and obesity.

She has been a practicing general Pediatrician for over 22 years. She practices Ambulatory Pediatrics in an office setting, cares for newborns in the hospital setting, and has admitting privileges to several area hospitals including a regional Children's Hospital. She has served on several committees to improve medical care to children and teenagers, most recently on a Suicide Post-vention Task-force to prevent adolescent suicide.

She has been published and quoted in several clinical magazines and newsletters on issues regarding children and young adolescents such as ADHD diagnosis of school children, wrongfully labeling young children in grade schools with learning disabilities, and a child’s readiness for school. She has been an advocate in promoting encouragement in early childhood schooling to help children develop a natural love of learning. She advises parents to gather information from their child’s doctor, previous teachers or caretakers and potential teachers and other educational advisors before making decisions about putting their child in school, to prevent parents from making uninformed decisions about their child’s schooling and to prevent educators from wrongfully labeling young school children with learning disabilities and/or ADHD. She has helped parents and educators in her community develop a successful way to screen and observe students readiness and development abilities based on behavior, speech abilities, and other developmental criteria such as the ability to follow directions.


She was consulted by the Texas Suicide Post-vention Task-Force regarding information sharing, access to Mental Health providers, and interaction between primary pediatricians and other primary care providers and the mental health providers in the community. She worked to improve access to care and prevent Suicides in Children and Adolescents.