Dr. Pease was born in Malaysia and completed her medical school at the University of McGill in Montreal, Canada. She moved in 2001 to the Twin Cities, where she completed her Surgical and Clinical Pathology residency, followed by a Hematopathology fellowship. In 2008, she moved to Des Moines, Iowa, to work at Pathology Associates of Central Iowa. She lives in Clive, Iowa, with her husband Martin and seven children (Andrew, Gregory, James, Charlie, David, Genevieve, and Joey). She is a patron of the Des Moines Symphony and other fine arts groups in the metro area.