Dr. Dahl is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and staff hospitalist in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine at UPMC Presbyterian. She attended Vassar College as an undergraduate and majored in English and Psychology. She attended medical school at Stony Brook University before completing her internal medicine residency at UPMC. Her poem "Chordoma" is published in the anthology Grit, Gravity and Grace: New Poems About Medicine and Healthcare.