Chenxia received her academic and medical training as a physician in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Zhangjiakou Medical College and the Tianjin Universityof Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. She worked at the Tianjin Chest Hospital for two years. Then, after four years of study at Kyoto University in Japan, Chenxiaemigrated to the United States and, over the last two decades, had been working as a research scientist. She currently performs acupuncture at the MeccanIntegrated Medical Center in Fairfield, NJ and teaches at the Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine in New Jersey.