She got her MD degree (1986) and Ph.D (1991) in Renal Physiology from Beijing University School of Medicine. She completed her Pediatric Residency/Chief Resident at Beijing University Hospital and practiced there as a Pediatric Nephrologist till 1993. Dr. Yan Peng did her Residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (1999-2003). She took two one-year ACGME accredited fellowship trainings in Breast and Gynecologic Surgical Pathology at UPMC and Cytopathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Yan Peng has been the Director for a CLIA certified Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry Laboratory for more than 9 years. She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles.