Dr. Clarke's passion for medicine and service began during her freshman year of college, when she traveled to Kenya on a mission trip. After working in an orphanage for AIDS victims and a safe house for Maasai girls, Dr. Clarke decided to dedicate her career to health care promotion in underserved communities both locally and abroad. She attended medical school at Loma Linda University (LLU) in San Bernardino, followed by residency in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In keeping with her passion for medicine and service, Dr. Clarke was recently a general internist in Guam, where her work focused on the treatment of non-communicable diseases and program coordination around healthy behavior promotion. She also organized health outreach programs in the nearby island countries of Micronesia (Pohnepei) and Palau. Dr. Clarke has since returned to her alma mater, where she is currently an Assistant Professor and practices at LLU’s affiliate FQHC, the Social Action Community Health System (SACHS). SACHS serves residents of San Bernardino County, which has one of the nation's highest rates of poverty and a prevalence of diabetes and heart disease that exceed California averages. Dr. Clarke is passionate about the effective use of lifestyle medicine and healthy behavioral change to address health disparities. Additionally, she mentors local underrepresented minority students about opportunities within the health professions.