Dr. Chiao received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and completed general psychiatry residency and an addiction psychiatry fellowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine. She has also received advanced psychotherapy training at the Columbia University for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and has pursued intensive training in motivational interviewing and EMDR therapy. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Chiao teaches residents and fellows at Weill Cornell Medical College. Prior to working as a psychiatrist, she trained in general internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW).