Ms. Bratton is the clinical coordinator for the long-term clinic for children with birth defects in the division of Pediatric Surgery at the University of California, Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco. She received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado and her Master's degree in Nursing, with a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner certificate, at the University of California San Francisco. Ms. Bratton is credentialed as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Association.

Ms. Bratton has held a variety of pediatric nursing positions in pediatrics over the past twenty five years within the Intensive Care Nursery, Pediatric Gastroenterology and presently Pediatric Surgery.