Her initial medical and paediatric training was in Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland. She began her paediatric cardiology training at Green Lane Hospital before spending four years in Boston at the Boston Children’s and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. While in Boston she completed a Masters in Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Her clinical and research interests are in adult congenital heart disease, intervention for congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension.