Sarah received her first BS in Health Science from Johnson State College in 2003. She received her second BS in Medical Biology from the University of New England in 2005. As a student at UNE, she worked as a research assistant in the department of pharmacology in the school of osteopathic medicine where she assisted with the investigation of cardiomyopathy in diabetes. She spent her last semester at UNE completing a research internship at University Catholique de Louvain Medical School in Brussels, Belgium with collaborators of her lab in Maine. After receiving her BS from UNE, Sarah returned to work as teaching assistant in the gross anatomy lab for graduate students in the physician assistant program at UNE.

Sarah is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, and is completing the Vesalius Module, which will lead to a certificate in teaching in the biomedical sciences. Her research is conducted under the supervision of her advisor, Dr. Ronald Killiany, in the lab for Cognitive Neurobiology at Boston University, and with collaborators in the Framingham Heart Study. Her research focuses on volumetric analysis and morphometry of structural abnormalities in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as well as neuropsychological testing in the investigation of dementia, specifically Alzheimer's disease, in humans.