She is a program director and senior advisor at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

[1] Her dissertation was titled Racial disparity in diabetic end-stage renal disease: trends in incidence, survival and possible explanatory factors.

She was an epidemiologist focused on social and scientific systems at National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) from 1988 to 1996.

She is a program director and senior advisor in the NIDDK Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases.

She manages diabetes epidemiology interests (e.g., developing national survey components, analyzing and publishing resultant data, mentoring epidemiologists, and directing computer programmers).