Denise Howard attended the University of Mississippi and received her Medical Degree and Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her residency at Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a fellowship in Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at the University of Michigan where she also served on faculty. She has practiced Obstetrics and Gynecology for more than 20 years and currently lives and work in Doha, Qatar where she is a Senior Attending Physician at Sidra Medical and Research Center and Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine.