Additionally, she was first African-American woman to serve as an attending physician at Louisville's Kosair Children's Hospital.
She completed post-graduate work at West Virginia State College and the University of Chicago.
Additionally, she studied child psychiatry at Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens Village and becoming a fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
She worked for the Louisville city and Jefferson County Health Department, and was a pediatrician for the West End Day Care Center.
She was the first African-American woman on the staff of Louisville Children's Hospital and one of only two black women on the faculty of a medical school located in the southern area of United States.