1959
Born in Hong Kong on August 9.
1983
Receives a BS in pharmacy from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy and is a teaching assistant in animal physiology.
1984
Is a staff pharmacist at the Sun Belt Regional Medical Center until 1987.
1985
Achieves a MS in biology from the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
1988
Earns a PhD in biology from the Univ. of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Receives the Wendell Griffith Award in Biochem.
1989
Is a staff pharmacist at the St. Louis University Hospital until 1991.
1991
Attains an MD from the Saint Louis Univ. School of Medicine and is a medicine intern of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Program until 1992.
1992
Is an internal medicine resident at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals with the Baylor College of Medicine until 1994.
1994
Is a fellow in endocrinology of the Joint Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine Training Program until 1997.
1994
Teaches as a clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine until 1997.
1997
Is an assistant internist and prof. of medicine turned associate in both roles at the Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center until 2013.
2002
Becomes a fellow of the American College of Physicians; Is inducted into the American Society of Internal Medicine.
2002
Teaches as an adjunct assistant prof., adjunct associate prof. and adjunct prof. at the University of Texas Medical School through 2019.
2008
Is an adjunct assoc. prof. turned adjunct prof. in the Dept. of Pharm. Sciences at the Univ. of Houston College of Pharmacy through 2019.
2008
Is an adjunct member of graduate faculty at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, continuing in the role.
2009
Teaches as an adjunct professor at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Texas A&M Health Science Center until 2019.
2011
Is the director of research in the Dept. of Emergency at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center until 2015.
2013
Is an internist and prof. at the Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center through today; Is a U.S. Faculty Scholar of the Vietnamese Edu. Found.
2014
Is an adjunct professor at the Shantou University Medical College Cancer Research Center in China until 2019.
2015
Is an adjunct professor in the Dept. for the Mgmt. of Science and Tech. Devel. at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam through today.