Rachel has 20 years of healthcare experience, including 10 years as an APN: 5 years in primary care and 5 in obesity medicine. She got involved in obesity medicine after realizing she didn't have the right tools to help her patients with metabolic disease, having lived with obesity for most of her adult life and watched family members struggle as well, and knowing firsthand that traditional advice didn't work. She found the Obesity Medicine Association and earned her Certificate of Advanced Education through them.

As Rachel began treating metabolic disease more comprehensively in primary care, she found it deeply rewarding to actually improve her patients' health and lives, and she moved to the field full time. She has remained active with OMA, serving on committees and recently being honored as a Fellow of OMA (FOMA), and she enjoys educating other providers about the disease of obesity, having presented at many local and state conferences.