Ravi Chandra, M.D. is a psychiatrist, writer, and compassion educator in San Francisco, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He writes for Psychology Today and East Wind eZine, where his longform essays are written “from his corner of the intersection of Black and Asian lives.” His debut documentary, The Bandaged Place: From AIDS to COVID and Racial Justice won Best Film at the 2021 Cannes Independent Film Festival. Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks is his full-length nonfiction debut, and is the winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. He facilitates healing circles through the Japanese American group Tsuru for Solidarity. Information on his other books, workshops, films and performances is available at www.RaviChandraMD.com.

Emilie Chow, MD has been at UCI since 2005. She is a primary care physician who has been involved with medical education for her whole career. She received her MD from University of Illinois at Chicago. She then completed her combined Internal Medicine and Pediatric residency at University of Michigan. After her residency she worked in Shanghai China for 2-years. She returned to the US to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UCLA. She decided she enjoyed and missed long term preventative care that she would practice primary care at UCI after her fellowship. At UCI, she has been actively involved in teaching medical students and residents. She is currently interested in the improvement of populations’ health with the use of information technologies, as well as mentoring medical students and residents.

Dr. Joe grew up in Southern California and attended UCLA for his undergraduate studies, majoring in Biology. After studying Intercultural Studies for a year at Biola University (La Mirada, CA), he went to medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (Richmond, VA). He completed internship and residency in General Surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center followed by a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Dr. Joe began his career in 2001 at Riverside County Regional Medical Center (Moreno Valley, CA), now known as Riverside University Health System. There he established the Surgical ICU service and served as the first Director of Adult Critical Care Services. In 2004, Dr. Joe moved to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (Colton, CA) where he served as the Associate Trauma Director and the as the Medical Director of the Edward G. Hirschman Burn Center at ARMC from 2005-2013. He was then recruited to join the faculty at UCI School of Medicine to serve as the Medical Director of the UCI Health Regional Burn Center. Since coming to UCI, Dr. Joe graduated with his MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business and serves as the inaugural Vice Chair for Quality in the Department of Surgery as well as the current Vice President of the Medical Staff. When not working, Dr. Joe enjoys spending time with his wife and four children, music, and sports (especially hockey).

Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is medical director of Integrated Health Partners of Southern California (IHP SoCal), a clinically integrated network (CIN) serving 350,000+ patients whose medical home is one of nine member community health centers in three counties. Dr. Lee is board-certified in family medicine and serves patients at Korean Community Services (KCS) Health, a community health center serving immigrants and other vulnerable populations in Orange County. He is active in physician leadership, currently serving a 3-year term on the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) board of directors and is a past president of the California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP). Early in his career, Dr. Lee co-founded the Family Medicine Revolution hashtag (#FMRevolution), a grassroots social media movement giving the power of telling family medicine’s stories back to family physicians and building a global community of thought leaders. In 2018, Dr. Lee was named a CAFP Hero of Family Medicine and was later honored as 2021 CAFP Family Physician of the Year.  Though he has yet to don a cape, he can be found wearing his white coat for legislative visits in Sacramento and DC.

Dr. Sunny Park is double board-certified in Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, and Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery. She specializes in cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries of the face and neck, and has a private practice in Newport Beach. After attending UC Berkeley for her BA and MPH, she obtained her MD from Jefferson Medical College. She completed her residency in Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery at Penn State University followed by a fellowship in Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at LSU Shreveport. She has lectured regularly at the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery meetings and has volunteered for medical mission trips overseas, most recently in 2019 to Vietnam. In addition, every year since 2021, Dr. Park has been chosen as a Physician of Excellence in Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery by Orange County Medical Association and Orange Coast Magazine.

Dr. Alison Taur (she/her) serves as Regional Coordinating Chair of Nuclear Medicine for Kaiser Permanente Southern California and as Clinical Assistant Professor for the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. She graduated from University of Michigan Medical School and completed her Nuclear Medicine residency at Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to her clinical and administrative duties, Dr. Taur devotes her time to training, education, and advocacy for equitable transgender health care both within and outside of KP. She helped found the multidisciplinary Pediatric GenderCare Clinic at KP San Bernardino County. Dr. Taur also helps facilitate a trans teen support group and is active in her local PFLAG chapter. She lives with her wife of now 25 years and three sons in Newport Beach and enjoys playing double bass and feasting on exquisite sushi.

Dr. Susan Wu is a pediatric hospitalist at CHLA and associate professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She is associate division head of Clinical Programs for Hospital Medicine, and also co-director of the Pediatric Residency IMPACT Advocacy Track, which includes a three-year longitudinal program in quality improvement and patient safety. She is co-chair of the Multidisciplinary Action Plan committee, which develops and monitors adherence to evidence-based guidelines. Dr. Wu has served as physician champion for multiple institutional quality and safety projects, and has participated either as champion or physician representative on several Children’s Hospital Association quality-improvement collaboratives. She is currently co-director of the Quality Improvement core curriculum for CHLA fellowship trainees, and previously served as director of the Quality and Safety curriculum for pediatric residents.

Jason Liang

UCI APAMSA Co-President
University of California, Irvine SOM

Cindy Vu

UCI APAMSA Co-President
University of California, Irvine SOM

Lyndon Bui

Region VII Co-Director
University of Arizona, COM

Rowena Feng

Region VII Co-Director
AT Still University, SOMA

Ameryl Loi

Region VII Co-Director
University of California, Irvine SOM

Clara Nguyen

Region VII Co-Director
David Geffen SOM at UCLA

Jenny Zhu

Research Presentations Coordinator
University of California, Irvine SOM

Leena Lim

Community Outreach Co-Director
University of California, Irvine SOM

Sai Wignarajah

Research & Grants Coordinator
University of California, Irvine SOM

Mio Jiang

Advocacy Director
University of California, Irvine SOM

Janet Nguyen

Mentorship Director
University of California, Irvine SOM