She focuses her executive search work on C-Suite, Presidents, Deans, Department Chairs and other Executive Leadership positions, notably identifying distinguished scientific leaders across  academy, industry, and non-profit organizations.  Her consulting work is focused nationally on research institutes, NCI-designated cancer centers, multi-hospital health systems, academic medical centers, biopharma, and professional associations.

She has over 10 years of basic sciences and translational research experience.  Her research focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of B cell immunoglobulin class-switching in antibody responses to infectious pathogens and on the development of therapeutics for autoimmunity, allergy, and B cell lymphoma. 

Dr. Lam previously served on the Editorial Board for two scientific journals, Autoimmunity and Biomarkers.

A native of California, she attended the University of California, Irvine for her undergraduate and graduate studies.  After her doctoral training, she trained as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where she conducted preclinical research and investigated an inhibiting small molecule that suppresses the pathogenic autoantibody response in systemic lupus erythematosus.

During her doctoral training, she received a number of awards, including the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH T32 Grant and The American Association of Immunologists Trainee Award.

Dr. Lam is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Association of Immunologists (AAI).