Carrie completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, her dental degree at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in conjunction with her MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health (2010), where she was awarded an American Association of Public Health Dentistry Student Merit Award. Carrie then went on to complete her specialty program in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF, 2013), and was concurrently accepted into the UCSF Global Health Sciences Clinical Scholars Program. She received funding to complete a health policy research thesis, for which she was recognised with a Graduate Research Award from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD). During this time, Carrie also received funding and a Student Achievement Award in Global Oral Health for work on global nutrition and oral health programs in Nepal and Honduras.
Carrie worked as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF as well as in private practice in the United States (both Seattle and San Diego) before moving to Australia. Carrie is currently a lecturer at the University of Sydney, School of Dentistry where she coordinates the paediatric dentistry curriculum as well as mentors student research projects. Carrie is also a dental specialist at the Department of Paediatric Dentistry at Sydney Dental Hospital and cares for paediatric patients in private practice in Hornsby and Chatswood.
