She received her Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on general consumers’ health information needs, their search and evaluation behavior using web search engines and social media, and the design of personalized context-aware health information search systems. Her recent research examines health consumers’ self-tracking behavior as well as chronic disease patients’ use of smartphones for fulfilling self-care needs. Her work has been published in leading information science and health informatics journals, including Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Information Processing and Management, and Journal of Medical Internet Research. She is currently serving on the editorial boards of JASIST and Library and Information Science Research (LISR).