Education

• Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, P.R. China, Medicine, MD, 1987
• Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, 1993-1998, Endocrinology, PhD, 1998

Post-Graduate Education

• Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China, Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1987–1993
• Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, Department of Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Postdoctoral Fellow,1998-1999
• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2001

Professional and Academic Positions

• Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2001-2007
• Research Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2007-2009
• Co-PI of Small Animal and Imaging Core, Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2006-2009
• Research Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 2009-
  

Areas of Research Interest or Areas of Clinical Interest

• The mechanism of steroid hormones and growth factors in endometrial cancer development.
• Development of murine models of endometrial cancer, including subcutaneous, intra-peritoneal and intra-uterus xenografts using fresh human tumor tissue.
• Creation of viable primary human endometrial tumor bank.
• Investigation of novel combinational therapies in endometrial cancer in athymic mice.
• Development of small animal imaging technology to monitor the occurrence of hormone resistant endometrial tumor.
• Genome sequencing to detect novel mutations in endometrial cancer
• Development of Cancer Genetic Timeline Analysis for identification of founder mutations in endometrial cancer.
• Development of a mathematical model of human cancer to address critical issues in oncology such as malignant transformation, tumor evolution, initiation of metastasis and establishment of metastatic lesions in distant organs.

Publications, 2004-2009