Charmaine is an Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner with over twelve years of experience in areas of outpatient pediatrics, school nursing/special procedures, medical-surgical, telemetry, urology, and neuro-surgical ICU. She has a Baccalaureate degree from the University of Central Oklahoma and a Masters degree from Chamberlain University. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Society of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She lives in Plano with her husband and son. In her spare time, she enjoys reading novels, poetry, watching movies, and going for long trail walks. She is conversant in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Marathi. Pediatrics requires great empathy, caring, and patience, and it is what she is most passionate about.