9:30 AM – 10:00 AM l Registration

10:00 AM – 10:40 AM l Keynote Speaker l Dr. Donna Tran

10:45 AM – 11:25 AM l AAPI Identity, Challenges in Medicine/Leadership l Dr. Jeffrey Velotta

11:30 AM – 12:10 PM l Women in Medicine l Dr. Alison Taur, Dr. Susan Wu, Dr. Sunny Park

12:10 PM – 12:50 PM l Lunch & LGBTIA+ Mixer

12:50 PM – 1:30 PM l Poster Session

1:35 PM – 2:00 PM l NRMP Be the Match

2:05 PM – 2:30PM l All of Us

2:35 PM – 3:15 PM l Holistic Medicine l Dr. Hwang

3:20 PM – 4:00 PM l Breakout Session

• Residency Panel
• Pre-Medicine Panel

4:00 PM l Closing

Sunny Park, MD

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, Dr. Park has been chosen as a Physician of Excellence in Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery by Orange County Medical Association and Orange Coast Magazine every year since 2021.

Alison Taur, MD

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 27 years and three sons in Newport Beach and enjoys playing double bass and feasting on exquisite sushi.

Donna Tran, MD, MPH

Donna Tran, MD, MPH, is a psychiatry resident at Stanford Health Care and earned her MD at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and MPH at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. During medical school, she served as the National President of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association from 2021 – 2023. In 2024, she was appointed as the District 10 Representative on the Senior Citizens Commission of the City of San Jose and interned under U.S. Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-19). Previously, she worked on health policy in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and presented to the President Biden’s Advisory Commission for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander AANHPI (PAC-AANHPI/WHIAANHPI), advocating for public mental health. For research, she focuses on health inequities, leadership, primary care, and advocacy. In her free time, Donna enjoys bouldering, her French bulldog, Boba Princess, and TED Talks/podcasts.

Jeffrey Velotta, MD, FACS

Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, MD, FACS is a thoracic surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, and Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Science at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.  Dr. Velotta’s clinical and research interests involve innovative techniques and regionalization pathways for lung cancer, esophageal cancer, and mesothelioma. In addition, his most recent research involves improving lung cancer screening uptake in Asian Americans and identifying key factors in the rising incidence of lung cancer in non-smoking Asian American women.