Dr Anderson earned her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Sydney (Australia), and her Masters degree in Chinese and Japanese Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA, Boston, MA). Dr Anderson has over 20 years of teaching, academic administrative and research experience. Recent research positions were at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and at NESA in collaboration with Harvard Medical School.

Dr Anderson’s current research interests include the mechanism of acupuncture, and acupuncture and in vitro fertilization (IVF). She is widely published, serves as an editor for several complementary and alternative medical journals, and regularly participates on National Institute of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) expert panels to determine research-funding allocation. Dr Anderson is currently the Academic Dean and Research Director at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in NY, and an Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Yeshiva University, NY). She also maintains a private practice at the Pacific College Clinic and New York University Fertility Center.