Dr. Khalsa graduated from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC), completed her Family Medicine residency training at the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, and has master’s degrees in biochemistry and medical education, along with additional faculty leadership training. In 1990 she joined the medical school faculty at USC, directing the HIV clinical training program for the Pacific AIDS education and Training Center (AETC) from 1990-2005, along with teaching medical students and residents, and serving as chairperson for the first-year medical school curriculum revision. She provided HIV clinical care at the Los Angeles County-USC Rand Schrader and Maternal Child Adolescent HIV Clinics, the USC Family Medicine Faculty Clinic, and the LA Gay and Lesbian Jeffrey Goodman HIV Clinic, while training hundreds of healthcare providers from the US and abroad in the care of HIV disease. From 2005-2010 she served as the medical director of the La Fe Ryan White clinic in El Paso Texas, where she provided full-time HIV clinical care while continuing her teaching activities through the Texas-Oklahoma AETC, travelling throughout the US as well as Latin America and Japan. Since 2010 she has continued to provide full-time clinical care of HIV-infected patients at the McDowell Ryan White in Phoenix Arizona where she also serves as clinic medical director. She supervises a staff of nine additional clinical providers who together care for around 5000 patients. The clinic is the largest Ryan White provider in the state of Arizona and provides care to HIV-uninfected patients for hepatitis C, transgender care and HIV prevention. In addition, she also directs the anal cancer screening and treatment program at the clinic and continues to lecture on HIV treatment and prevention throughout the US. Outside of work she has been married for over 30 years with three adult children, is a volunteer gardener at the Phoenix Japanese Friendship Garden and serves on the boards of directors for the Phoenix Bonsai Society and the Sonoran Suiseki Association.