Dr. Carey attended the University of Vermont College of Medicine and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Vermont. Upon completing her residency, she joined the Family Medicine Department at UVM and for fifteen years created and directed the Community Medicine and Prevention Programs of the department’s residency. She has done research on views of Residents on single-payer healthcare as well as collaborative research on Adolescent Substance Abuse as well as the development of a Patient Decision Making Aid for Prediabetes. She is a former chair of the Vermont Physicians for a National Program chapter while practicing family medicine in a rural practice in the Champlain Islands near Burlington, Vermont. Dr. Carey has been a member of PNHP since 1990.