Dr. Freeman Garrick was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and attended medical school at the University of Southern California. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program in New York, serving as chief resident during her final year in 2001. She is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician who, after completing her residency, obtained a Masters in Science in Epidemiology from Cornell University. Dr. Freeman Garrick is currently an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Alameda Health System- Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. She also serves as Executive Director of the Alameda County Health Pathway Partnership, Deputy Medical Director of the Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Agency, and President of Mentoring in Medicine & Science.