Dr. Wadell completed her undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. She then completed a 2 year research fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control before starting medical school at UC Davis. She received her MD in 2009 and stayed at UC Davis for her Psychiatry residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship. She completed training in 2014 and became the medical director for the UC Davis early psychosis programs. During her years at UC Davis she participated in research, supported the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship as Associate Program Director, taught medical students as the Instructor of Record for their Psychiatry course, supervised residents and fellows in the early psychosis program and the general outpatient psychiatry clinic and saw children with neurodevelopmental disorders at the MIND institute. In 2022 she transitioned to her current role as the medical director for La Familia counseling services and continues to supervise trainees at UC Davis as volunteer clinical faculty. In 2025 she joined Hanna Center to help them launch Hanna Ahead, a coordinated specialty care psychosis clinic in Sonoma.