Dr. Justin Nguyen is currently a psychiatry resident at Community Memorial Health System in Ventura County, California. He served as APAMSA’s first Resolutions Director in 2017-2018 and then served as Advocacy Vice President from 2018-2020.

Justin received his bachelor’s degree in psychobiology at UCLA. As an undergraduate student, he engaged in student activism as part of the Vietnamese Student Union and also oversaw programs that promoted recruitment of students of color into higher education as a member of the Student-Initiated Outreach Committee. He then completed both his medical degree and master’s in public health at Touro University California, where in addition to being part of APAMSA, he was also deeply involved with the California Physicians Alliance (CaPA). After graduating from medical school, Justin completed a transitional year residency in Ocala, Florida before returning to California. He enjoys reading about history, politics, psychology, and personality theory, and in his free time also watches anime, plays video games, listens to music, and visits breweries/wineries.