Chelsea (Xiaoxi) Feng attended undergraduate education at Duke University, followed by medical school at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She completed her surgery residency at Cleveland Clinic, then went on to Cedars-Sinai for minimally-invasive foregut and bariatric fellowship. She joined the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute in 2021, and also participates in education as the Associate Program Director of Simulation for the General Surgery residency program. She is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery and licensed by the State Medical Board of Ohio.