Dr. Yeary received her Undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Eastern Kentucky University in 1982. She worked as a Quantitative Analytical Chemist in the coal industry. 

She received her Doctorate in Medicine from University of Louisville School of Medicine, Class of 1996. Dr. Yeary completed medical training with the University of Kentucky Family Practice Residency- Southeast., 1999.

Dr. Yeary has served as a Primary Care Physician, Hospitalist, Urgent Treatment Physician and Emergency Department Physician in several rural and urban Kentucky locations.

She has more than 28 years practice experience with some of Kentucky's most complicated Geriatric and Pediatric populations. She also has experience medically treating individuals addicted to opiates.