Amy graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Biology and Saint Vincent’s School of Medical Technology with a Medical Technology degree.  She later obtained her Master of Science from the State University of New York at Fredonia.  Her professional career as a licensed and board-certified Medical Technologist started at Saint Vincent Hospital and ended at the Veterans Affairs Medical Hospital.  Later she began her academic teaching career at Penn State Behrend, the Erie campus.  She decided to move back to the industrial field and worked as a Food Technologist in Research and Development, later returning to academics at Mercyhurst University to initially serve as the Program Director of the Medical Laboratory Technicians program and currently as an instructor of Chemistry.