Dr. Carley received a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.D. from Albany Medical College. She completed an internal medicine residency at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center and an infectious diseases fellowship at Temple University. She held a faculty position at Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford and later worked with Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Connecticut before joining the UConn Medical Group.

Lung abscess in a patient with Kartagener syndrome.Uzunpinar, Aydin; Carley, Nina; Bandyopadhyay, Tapas Connecticut medicine 2007 Jan;71(1):13-4