Laurie Regan has served as the Dean of the College of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon since 2005. She received a doctorate in Neurobiology from Harvard University in 1991, and an ND degree from NUNM in 1997.

For the past 2 decades, she has studied qigong in the US and China under the mentorship of Professor Wang Qingyu, lineage holder of the Jinjing School of Qigong. In 2010, she attended the first Shan Ren Dao retreat in mainland China open to foreigners, and has co-led SRD retreats in the U.S. annually since that time.