She works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP), and at the Center for Pain Relief at UWMC. She also has a private practice in Seattle. She received her MD from Peking Union Medical College and PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University. She then completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington. Her professional interests include the psychosomatic aspect of disease processes and the application of psychoanalytic understanding to diagnosis and treatment in non-psychoanalytic settings.