[2] She attended Locust Valley High School where she played on their field hockey team alongside her sister Sheila and earned a placement at Georgetown University.
[1] While in college, Partridge was accepted into medical school early, allowing her to skip her MCATs and explore French as an Academic minor.
[3] During her residency, she was inspired by Edward Stadtmauer to pursue a career in clinical research after helping him in his bone marrow transplant experiments.
[2] Upon completing her residency, Partridge followed her husband to Boston and accepted a position at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute under the guidance of Eric Winer.
[2] She also contributed to the 2006 American Society of Clinical Oncology guideline on Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients, which led to an increase in research on the subject.