Dr Stancic received her M.D. degree from New Jersey Medical School in 1993. She completed an Internal Medicine residency and served an additional year as Chief Medical resident at University Hospital in Newark, NJ. In response to witnessing the height of the catastrophic HIV epidemic while in medical school in Newark, she became very interested in the field of Infectious Diseases. She wanted to be part of the solution to the AIDS health care crisis and went on to complete a fellowship in Infectious Diseases.