Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang is a four-time “Top Doctor” in the annual San Diego Magazine “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey for pulmonary diseases in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2022.  She also is the youngest and first woman of color to receive the San Diego American Lung Association Lung Health Provider of the Year award in 2019.

She received her medical degree from University of Maryland in 2005 and completed her residency and Chief Residency in internal medicine as well as pulmonary fellowship at UC San Diego with board certifications in both.  She was recognized by Mindful Magazine as one of the Ten Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement in 2021.  She graduated from the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Fellowship in 2022.  She practices general pulmonary integrative medicine and is also a mindfulness teacher for patients, physician trainees, and physicians.