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