I taught Biology for several years in the suburbs of Chicago and then went back to school for a Master’s Degree. For nearly 10 years, I worked as a perfusionist, where I operated a heart-lung machine during cardiac surgery in hospitals in Boston, MA, and Houston, TX. After that, I went back to teaching and came to Solebury School in 2006. Currently at Solebury, I teach Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Ethics, Microbiology, Forensics and Honors Environmental Science. I'm also the Chair of the Faculty and Staff Strategic Planning Committee and a member of the Faculty Mentoring Committee. At Solebury, I enjoy the teacher-student interaction. I still get a thank you after every class; they appreciate what resources are given to them.

If you were to visit my classroom, you would see students engaged in science. Biology is all about looking at the world around us, so I keep them busy with activities and experiments. Anatomy is taught from the perspective of medicine, so students are always bringing in experiences they have had or hear about. We do a lot of hands on work also from making models of the heart with clay to building each system on a 16-inch tall model. My favorite part of Anatomy comes at the end of the year after we have covered all of the body systems and we do a pig dissection. We get to see all of the systems together in one spot and see how they are all connected. Some students are a bit squeamish at the beginning, but once we get started, they are enthralled with the dissection.