 She became assistant chief of medicine at Howard University Medical Service at Columbia General Hospital in 1973, and from 1974 to 1977 she served as assistant chief of medicine in charge of undergraduate medical education at Howard.She was promoted to associate professor of medicine in 1978.She was a founder of the Leonidas Berry Society for Digestive Diseases, an organization for people of color with careers as scientists, surgeons, and gastroenterologists named after Leonidas Berry, the first African-American gastroenterologist.