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My Biography

I chose to work at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco in order to join a stimulating professional environment that thrives on the constant change and associated challenges that are part and parcel of health care in the 21st Century. Also, I’m able to walk to work every day, which improves both the environment and my own cardiovascular fitness at the same time!

My areas of special interest concern cervical cancer prevention in developing countries, where cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death among women due to their lack of access to Papanicolaou screening services. In 1996, I co-founded the Viet/American Cervical Cancer Prevention Project, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization whose mission is to help Vietnam develop Papanicolaou screening services while we study the relationship between the Vietnam War and cervical cancer. I have contributed to cervical cancer prevention guidelines for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, and other organizations. I have also made presentations about cervical cancer prevention at educational meetings for physicians in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. My message to these audiences is that disease prevention requires social change, and that laboratory information constitutes an essential fulcrum against which to leverage the social change required to preserve life. Click here to see my publications.

As a pathologist, my direct contact with patients is limited, and what I enjoy most about working at our facility are my day-to-day professional interactions with our remarkably talented and dedicated staff. It’s gratifying to work as a member of a team motivated by a sense of social mission. I believe this mission is the best aspect of Kaiser Permanente’s health care model. Kaiser’s aim to improve health outcomes among all of our health plan members, and to treat each health plan member as if they were a member of our own family, provides an irreplaceable antidote to the perverse financial incentives that remain embedded throughout our nation’s health care systems.

Undergraduate Education: AB in Biology, Princeton University
Professional Conferences: United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Professional Affiliations: Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology; United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology; American Society of Cytopathology
Other KP Facilities: Hayward (1990-1993); Redwood City (1990-2000); South San Francisco (2000-2007)
Began Practice: 1990
Joined Kaiser Permanente: 2007

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My Credentials

Medical school	Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Internship	University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
Residency	University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
Fellowship	Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Board certification	Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical, American Board of Pathology

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