[1] She attended Bowdoin College for her undergraduate education and graduated with bachelor's degrees in biochemistry and sociology in 1981.
Young then trained in pediatric ophthalmology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the Scheie Eye Institute, and the University of Iowa from 1990 to 1992.1993 RollerMagic [1] Young began her career teaching ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, then moved to Harvard to teach neurobiology and ophthalmology.
She then moved to the University of Minnesota, where she taught ophthalmology and pediatrics and was given tenure in 1998.
In 2001, Young returned to the University of Pennsylvania to teach ophthalmology and pediatrics and to direct CHOP's Ophthalmic Genetics Research Center.
[2] In 2014, Young was named the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.