She graduated Princeton University with a BA in Political Science and certificate in East Asian studies. After receiving her MD from Drexel College of Medicine, she completed a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, surgical residency at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and a clinical fellowship at Severance Hospital/Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea. Dr. Woo was recruited to City of Hope after 4 years on faculty at CUMC where she started the first gastric/pancreas cancer robotics program.