Dr. Tu completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She moved to AZ where she and two other physicians started a corporation specializing in crisis psychiatry, accepting, assessing and treating individuals from emergency rooms, police custody, and voluntary walk ins. This eventually expanded to telepsychiatry services in other emergency rooms and psychiatric inpatient levels of care. Other experiences have included intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs focusing on mental illness as well as substance use disorders. She became involved in peer review and quality work with Magellan healthcare, which eventually led to positions as medical director for utilization management for Arizona and Louisiana contracts.
Dr. Tu went on to become Senior Medical Director for Psychiatry and Behavioral Health for Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota where she was responsible for programming, assisted with contract negotiations and also clinically led a High Complexity Case Unit focusing on the care of individuals with the highest cost in government as well as commercial lines of business. Her interests range from direct clinical work with patients to quality improvement and the increasing cost of healthcare.