Yedda received her MD and PhD degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied the pathophysiology and treatment for globoid cell leukodystrophy in the lab of Dr. Mark Sands. She is now a resident physician in the Mass General Brigham adult neurology residency program. She hopes to dedicate her life to helping adult patients with leukodystrophies, studying leukodystrophy disease mechanisms, and devising effective treatment strategies for these disorders.