About
Lai-Ying gained her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Queensland in 2014, graduating with First Class Honours.
She undertook her Respiratory training at The Prince Charles Hospital and Cairns Base Hospital, and completed a Fellowship in Lung Transplantation and Pulmonary Hypertension at the Queensland Lung Transplant Service in 2022.
Her clinical and research interests lie in interstitial lung disease, especially idiopathic and familial pulmonary fibrosis, end-stage lung disease, and pulmonary hypertension.
She was awarded the University of Queensland/Metro North Health Clinician Researcher Training Pathway Scholarship in 2023, and is currently undertaking a PhD with Professor Dan Chambers at the University of Queensland, using cutting-edge single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial techniques to characterize immune cell populations in pulmonary fibrosis.