Dr Li received her MD degree from Shanghai Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, and her PhD in Human Genetics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She completed a Research Fellowship at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, and University of Maryland. She completed a Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. She went on to complete a Hematopathology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, followed by Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.