Dr. Ehrhart is the Director of the Columbine Health System Center for Healthy Aging at CSU and a Full Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences.

She holds the Ross M Wilkins MD Limb Preservation Foundation University Endowed Chair in Musculoskeletal Biology and Oncology and is the Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Musculoskeletal Oncology and Traumatology. Her research focus is in comparative medicine and she has been actively involved in tissue regeneration research, mesenchymal stem cell biology, and sarcoma research for the last three decades.

She has been a keynote speaker at various venues for translational research, both nationally and internationally. She holds joint faculty positions in the School of Biomedical Engineering, the Cell and Molecular Biology program, the Gates Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Colorado and The University of Colorado Cancer Center. She has held several prestigious positions in the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, Veterinary Society for Surgical Oncology (President, and Veterinary Orthopedic Society (President).

She has authored over 100 publications in the human and veterinary literature.