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Department Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Closed	8:00 am 5:30 pm	8:00 am 5:30 pm	8:00 am 5:30 pm	8:00 am 5:30 pm	8:00 am 5:30 pm	Closed

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My Biography

I graduated Suma Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA. After that, I attended the UCLA School of Medicine. I then traveled to New York to become a pathologist at Columbia. After a year, I switched specialties and completed my internal medicine residency at New York University (VA program). I went to Washington, D.C. VA Medical Center to work for a year before coming out to San Francisco in 2003 to join Kaiser Permanente San Francisco.

I have been with the Hospital Medicine Department of the Permanente Medical Group at San Francisco since 2003. As a "hospitalist," I care for acutely ill hospitalized patients until they are discharged and return to the care of their outpatient primary care doctors. As Kaiser Permanente San Francisco is an academic teaching institution, you will often find me supervising a team of physicians who are in training (residents). I am a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, so you will often see me walking with, and teaching, medical students from UCSF as well.

What I enjoy the most about Kaiser Permanente San Francisco is the exceptionally high quality of physicians and nurses that I work with. Having worked at various places throughout my career, I was, and I continue to be, very impressed and satisfied by the level of commitment to excellent that our hospitalist group and our medical center have in caring for our patients.

I am happily married with two beautiful daughters. My hobbies include snowboarding and running around chasing my kids. Ever since medical school I have been very active with my church. I have gone on several Christian medical mission trips, caring for the poor in various parts of the world, as well as volunteering at local Christian homeless clinics.

Other Languages: Korean
Undergraduate Education: BS, University of California at Los Angeles
Professional Affiliations: American College of Physicians; Phi Beta Kappa Society; American College of Physicians; Society of Hospital Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of California at San Francisco
Began Practice: 2001
Joined Kaiser Permanente: 2003

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My Credentials

Medical school	UC Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Internship	Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Residency	Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York, NY
Board certification	Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

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