Dr. Bornstein-Chau has spent 20 years practicing medicine in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, both as a hospitalist and in primary care.  After graduating from Penn State Milton S. Hershey School of Medicine in Hershey, PA in 2005, she completed Internal Medicine Residency at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia.  During her residency, Dr. Bornstein-Chau came to appreciate the complex interplay of the social determinants of health and chronic disease, including preventable metabolic diseases, substance use disorders and mental health, and understood that experiences within the medical system, and access to the building blocks of good health vary wildly based on environment and opportunity.  Knowing that there had to be more than pills and surgeries to offer, she sought a broader application of health knowledge, and graduated from the Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Fellowship in 2019.  It was at this time that Dr. Bornstein-Chau made the move to primary care, joining Oak Street Health in North Philadelphia just as the COVID pandemic emerged and changed the world. 

In her practice in North Philly, Dr. Bornstein-Chau began to offer mindfulness-based interventions, as well as easily-attainable lifestyle modifications which helped her patients reduce their reliance on pharmaceuticals and build self-reliance and self-confidence, empowering patients to harness their innate healing abilities.  Dr. Bornstein-Chau's passion for helping her patients to understand ways to create better health outside of Western biomedical modalities was matched only by the joy she felt when her patients began to live better.  

Dr. Bornstein-Chau first became involved with Integrative Medicine for the Underserved in 2018.  She joined the policy committee immediately, eventually becoming Co-Chair.  She has also been Co-Chair of the Conference committee in 2022, 2023, and 2024.  She has been a member of the Advisory Board since 2020, and has been the Board chair since 2024.  Dr. Bornstein-Chau lives in her adopted hometown of Philly with husband Vinh, 16-year-old son Kien, and 6-year-old Portuguese water dog Mojo.  Dr. Chau unwinds by spending time with her family, practicing Vipassana meditation, cooking, eating Philly's awesome food, and has a passion for floral design and driving a race car.