Dr. Zhang graduated from Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine with a bachelor’s degree and obtained her Master’s and PhD degrees from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Dr. Zhang joined the School of Chinese Medicine at Hong Kong Baptist University in July 2016, serving as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Research Assistant Professor in the Clinical Division until 2023. In 2024, she joined the Teaching and Research Division as a Lecturer. Her research mainly focuses on the classic theory of Huangdi Neijing (e.g., five circuits and six qi), evidence-based Chinese medicine, health research reporting guidelines, and clinical trials of Chinese herbal medicine. 

Dr. Zhang is a registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner in both Mainland China and Hong Kong. She has successfully recieved a total of seven external funding grants as a principal investigator between 2018 and 2024, and has participated in eight research projects focused on Chinese medicine as the lead investigator. Dr. Zhang has published 97 academic papers in international and Chinese peer-reviewed medical journals during 2014-2024, with 69 of these articles as the first or corresponding author. Additionally, she has served as the editor for two academic books.

Dr. Zhang's contributions to the field have been recognized through several academic awards and honors, including "100 outstanding reviewers of the fourth batch of China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy" in 2023, "the 1st Qiu Zhen Scholars of Chinese Medicine" in 2020, "TOP ARTICLES IN OUTSTANDING S&T JOURNALS OF CHINA, FRONTRUNNER 5000 (as the first author)" in 2014 and 2017, respectively; and the "Third Prize of Science and Technology Award, China Association of Chinese Medicine" in 2015; etc.

Apart from clinical practice and research, Dr Zhang also serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association; Committee Member of Neijing Branch of China Association of Chinese Medicine, and the 2nd Standards of Traditional Chinese Medicine of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies; as well as the Council member of Specialty Committee of Clinical Curative Effect Evaluation of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area TCM Clinical Inheritance and Innovation Research Center, etc.

1. Evidence-based Chinese Medicine and Reporting Guidelines, such as Guideline for Reporting Clinical Trials with Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, etc. 
2. Clinical research of gastrointestinal diseases (e.g., constipation, IBS, ulcerative colitis) 
3. Chinese Medicine theory of “Huangdi Neijing (黃帝內經)”, such as the theories of “Five circuits and six qi” (Wu Yun Liu Qi五運六氣), and “Spleen controlling state of mind (脾主神志)”  
4. Epidemiology and infectious disease of Chinese Medicine (Zhongyi Yibing Xue 中醫疫病學)