Dr Herring attended pharmacy school at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy. She then did her residency with the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy and MercyOne Pharmacy in Dubuque. After residency she was briefly faculty at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy before returning to the University of Iowa as faculty in 2012. Dr Herring practices at the Iowa Lutheran Family Medicine Residency in Des Moines. At her practice site, Herring does inpatient and outpatient practice, but her focus is ambulatory care and transitions of care. At the college of pharmacy, she is heavily involved in teaching dermatology, diabetes, and self-care throughout the curriculum. In other teaching endeavors she is also the Director of the Pharmacy Educators Preparation Program for Residents and Fellows (PEPPR) that provides a teaching and learning curriculum for pharmacy residents throughout the eastern part of the state. She is extremely passionate about teaching and precepting and that has been the focus of her scholarship and service over the past several years including being the APhA-APPM preceptor special interest group coordinator in 2020-2021. She was also recently awarded Fellow from the American Pharmacists' Association.