Ng completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a 3.99 GPA, earning a degree in Human Biology with Honors.

Ng's interest in international health began at Stanford where her thesis work focused on health care access in third world countries for which she was awarded the prestigious Firestone Medal given to the top undergraduate honors thesis and her research work has been published in multiple scientific journals.

Ng served at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Heart Institute in Beverly Hills, California as Chief Fellow[citation needed] in Cardiovascular Medicine.

Ng has received numerous national and international accolades - California's Youth Volunteer of the Year, USA Today Newspaper named her to the "First All-American Academic Team," Glamour Magazine featured her as one of the "Top 10 College Women in America," and the Chinese World Journal named her as one of the "Ten Most Influential Asian-Americans" of the year.

On July 6, 2013, Dr. Ng married Carson Taylor Lawall, a Neurologist and fellow graduate of UCSF School of Medicine.