Phoebe is a physician-educator and author whose humanitarian efforts have spanned the regions of South America to Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the author of "Being Empowered for a Healthy Heart: A personal guide to taking control of your health while living with chronic conditions"—a poetry-infused health guide that has been praised as being the 'chicken soup for both the body and the soul.' She is the founder of Pendants for a Cause, a nonprofit organization that creates handcrafted sea glass jewelry for the purpose of raising funds to fight illness, provide care, and bring awareness to medically vulnerable pediatric populations around the world.