I completed my medical degree and Dr. med. thesis at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-University Muenster, Germany, and worked as a resident in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery prior to a basic science postdoctoral fellowship in Dermatology/Epithelial Biology at Stanford University. I subsequently completed a Pathology residency at Columbia University and a fellowship in Dermatopathology at UCLA. From 2009-2017, I worked as a dermatopathologist and physician-researcher in the Department of Dermatology/Dermatopathology at Columbia University.

I joined the Department of Pathology at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia in September 2017. I have a special interest in characterizing melanocytic tumors at the molecular level and my basic science studies focus on melanoma development, mechanisms of metastasis and response to therapy.