Dr. Schnee focuses her practice on home visits in assisted living facilities. She completed a Bachelor of the Arts at Trinity University with a major in Philosophy. Prior to medical school, she worked on joint research projects between Texas Heart Institute and University of Texas Health Science Center focusing on subcellular changes in heart tissue before and after implantation of LVAD (left ventricular assist device, or “artificial heart.”) She has publications stemming from that research in Journal of Cardiac Surgery, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and Medscape. Dr. Schnee then discovered her love of family medicine at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (now McGovern Medical School) where she received her MD. She matched for internship and residency in Family Medicine at Duke University. During residency ,she was able to combine her interest in philosophy with her love of medicine by serving on the Duke GME Ethics Committee. She also discovered her love of teaching, taking many opportunities to teach aspects of medicine to medical students, physician assistants, high school students, and members of the community. These efforts led to her winning teaching awards from both medical students and faculty at Duke.  After completing internship and residency at Duke, she became an attending physician at Duke Primary Care. She concurrently held a Consulting Associate faculty appointment with Duke University Medical School, and was invited to teach the Duke Family Medicine Residents as a guest lecturer. Her family then relocated to Houston, where Dr. Schnee found a new area of focus for her loves of medicine and teaching in joining Dr. Buxbaum. Dr. Schnee brings her love of and talent for teaching into her relationship with patients and families, helping them understand their health issues and what their treatment choices are.