Professor Xiao is from the department of gastroenterology in the first affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-Sen university in China. She has been trained in Northwestern University in the USA. She is currently the vice president of the Youth committee of Chinese society of gastroenterology, and also the vice president of Chinese society of neurogastroenterology and motility. Her research interest is neurogastroenterology and motility, as well as functional gastrointestinal disease, especially gastroesophageal reflux disease and esophageal motility disorders.