Dr. Piao received her medical degree from the Yanbian Medical School in Yanji, China and her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Paris VII in Paris, France. She completed a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, a hematopathology fellowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University in New York, NY, and a cytopathology fellowship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Piao joined Houston Methodist Hospital in 2011. Dr. Piao is a general surgical pathologist with subspecialty certification in hematopathology and cytopathology.