Alice graduated as a physiotherapist in Hong Kong and obtained her MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, MSc in Education from the University of Surrey and a PhD from the University of Queensland. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists and was admitted as a Specialist in Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy in 1995. In her earlier academic life, she was a Professor of Physiotherapy at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, visiting professor to Leeds Metropolitan University, an adjunct professor at Griffith University, and an honorary professor at the University of Sydney from 2012-2020. She is presently an Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland, part-time Director of Physiotherapy at the Kunming Medical University, visiting professor to the Tongji University, Sichuan West China Clinical Medical College, and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. She has facilitated many academic exchange activities between physiotherapy programmes in Australia and China.