Amber hails from the bayous of the great state of Louisiana where she got her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication and English from Louisiana State University and attending medical school at LSU in New Orleans. She spent the last 3 years in Denver completing her Family Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado. During these years, she became drawn to the power of the physician-patient relationship that she believes is the backbone of medicine. She is excited to begin her addiction medicine fellowship and is particularly passionate about the integration of primary care and substance use disorders, physician education, advocacy and policy work, harm reduction in the outpatient setting, and increasing access to substance use treatment.