Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1999-2001

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
"Regulation of the Outer Blood-Retinal Barrier: A Study of Tight Junctions in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium."

Ph.D., Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, December 1998

University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky
Dissertation: "The Cell Biology of Phagocytic Proteins in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium"

B.S., Biology, May 1992

Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky