Joanne Chien graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from San Jose State University with Cum Laude Honor and then trained and worked as a Registered Nurse for 5 years on a Medical-Surgical unit at Stanford Hospital.  In 2008 she received her Master of Science in Nursing with Gerontological Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of California, San Francisco.  She has worked as a Nurse Practitioner since 2010 with the first four years in the Community Living Center at Veterans Affairs Health Care System managing patients with complex medical and mental health conditions and providing inpatient Hospice care.  Joanne returned to Stanford Hospital in 2014 and works as a Nurse Practitioner in Urologic Medical Oncology specializing in treating urologic cancers, managing treatment-related side effects and participating in clinical trials as a sub-investigator.   Joanne was born and raised in Taiwan and is bilingual in Mandarin and English.