After graduating in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Palermo, she obtained a specialisation in Nephrology from the same university and begun to serve as an internist at the University’s Haemodialysis Service, Surgical Pathology R.
She completed several internships at nephrology units in Italy and abroad.
She has served from 1983 until 30th April 1995 at the Dialysis Techniques Unit of the University Hospital Policlinic, first as an associate extraordinary and then, after passing a competitive exam in 1989, as a head physician.

After graduating in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Palermo in 1986, she obtained a specialisation in Nephrology from the same university in 1990. She served at the University’s Haemodialysis Service, Surgical Pathology R, first as an internist and then as a scholarship holder for a research project aimed at the study of “Urolithiasis epidemiology in Sicily. Environmental factors and prophylaxis.” She has published numerous articles in nephrology magazines and has participated as a speaker in various congresses and science meetings, both in Italy and abroad. Since 2004, she has been employed as a Chief Medical Officer at the Sicilian Centre of Nephrology and Dialysis in Cefalù.