She completed her diagnostic radiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco in 1984 and did a fellowship in angiography and interventional radiology at University of California, San Francisco which she completed in 1985.
[1] LaBerge served as the head of Interventional Radiology at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI from 1985 to 1989 and concurrently served as assistant clinical professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu from 1986 to 1989.
[3] She also led the effort to develop the new residency in interventional radiology within the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in 2012.
[4] In research, LaBerge is most known for her work on portal hypertension and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS).
[6][7] She was selected as the fellow of the year through the Society of CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology in 1992.