Although I was born and raised in Arizona, I have lived in Northampton since 1979. I fell in love with small town New England while going to Albany Medical College and commuting from Williamstown where my husband was teaching at Williams College. I had done my undergraduate studies at Stanford University, and after medical school returned west for residency at Children's Hospital in Seattle, Washington. When I was finished, we headed back to New England where my husband joined the faculty at Smith College and I worked at the emergency room at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, filled in for a pediatrician on leave, and worked in the pediatric clinic at Baystate Medical Center.

In 1981 I became the third doctor at what is now Northampton Area Pediatrics. I love pediatrics! It's so much fun watching infants grow and develop into the people that they will be. I love being part of helping parents gain confidence in their abilities to guide their children through life. Pediatrics is fun.

At the dinner table, my three grown children were always clamoring for "a funny story from the office" about the antics of a nameless child that made me laugh that day. As a trustee for the Clarke School for the Deaf and Center for Oral Education, I have a special interest in hearing impairment. Outside the office I like to rollerblade, ski, and knit.