Dr. Xingxing Cheng is a practising transplant nephrologist and a clinical investigator with an expertise in decision science. Her clinical practice includes kidney transplant readiness, kidney transplant aftercare, and multi-organ transplantation.

Her overarching research goal is to make better decisions based on the existing technology and state of knowledge. Her current research is in the following areas: the costs, effectiveness, and implementation of work-up before kidney transplantation, including pretransplant cardiovascular screening; and the ethics of and decision-making in in multi-organ transplantation.