Colby Chamberlain received a BA with a major in zoology from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 2004. She received her MA in Bioethics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007 with a thesis entitled Ethical Reasons to Involve Demented Patients in Their Care and Why Physicians Fail to Do So. In 2011, she graduated with honors from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is currently Clinical Instructor of Medicine at UPMC Shadyside hospital.