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About Me
Looking out from the upper floors of the Oakland Kaiser Medical Center, I can see my high school just a few blocks north, and farther north is U.C. Berkeley, my college. On a clear day looking across the bay, I can see Mt. Sutro above my medical school. Twenty years ago when I began my medical practice, some of my patients were parents of my classmates. Twenty years later, some of my former classmates have become my patients as together we have entered midlife.
Ever since immigrating to the US from Hong Kong as a young teenager, Oakland has been my dear community. Many family members, friends, and my church are all here in Oakland. Every Sunday, I attend church, shop, eat, and invariably run into patients in Oakland Chinatown. When I completed my medical training in 1984, Oakland Kaiser was clearly the place I wanted to practice medicine.
I attended medical school at UCSF and in 1984 completed my residency as chief resident in Internal Medicine here at Oakland Kaiser. Originally, I joined Kaiser Permanente to avoid the business and administrative aspects of practicing medicine and to fully devote my energy to the care of patients. After joining, as a member of the hospital staff, I was called to serve on hospital committees. Unexpectedly and little by little, I went from one administrative post to another. I became assistant chief for the Department of Medicine from 1986 to 1990, Assistant Physician-in-Chief from 1990 to 1993, and from 1993 to 2001, I was the medical director for Outside Services for the Northern California Permanente medical group. In mid 2001, I missed medicine and decided to return to full-time clinical practice. Currently, my only administrative duty is serving as co-chairperson on the Peer Review Committee for the Department of Medicine.
Married for over twenty years, I have three children; all my children are now in college and beyond. Much of my time outside medicine is spent in traveling with my wife, partnering with her in facilitating marriage enrichment retreats, and helping immigrant youths in my church. I have found that growing older, along with the experiences gained from these non-medical activities, has made practicing medicine an ever-more enriching experience for me.
When I was a senior at Cal in 1977, I took a class about health care in America. I remember learning from the professor about the Kaiser Permanente system as then a non-traditional but good idea, and possibly a good model for the country. Perhaps it was that idealistic imprinting that ultimately led me to the career that I have chosen. Today, I am very grateful for that “pearl of wisdom” learned at Cal, and for the opportunity to take part in making that good idea into reality.
My Credentials
| UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
| Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA |
| Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine |
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