About Me I grew up in San Francisco and am thrilled to be back working in this area. I did some of my training in San Francisco but went to Los Angeles for medical school and Detroit, Michigan for my dermatology residency. I joined The Permanente Medical Group in 1996 right after my dermatology residency …
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About Me I grew up in Chicago and completed my undergraduate studies at Duke University in North Carolina. During college, I was drawn to a career in medicine because it allowed me to pursue my academic interests while directly helping people in need. After college, I returned to Chicago for medical school, where I developed …
Read MoreAbout Me I chose to join Kaiser Permanente back in 2005 because I believed in its integrated model of health care delivery. Its success was based on keeping its patients healthy, through both treatment and especially through prevention. I believe that this is even truer today. During medical school, I found myself particularly interested in …
Read MoreAbout Me I was born in Southern California and grew up in Long Beach. I first came to the San Francisco Bay Area where I went to UC Berkeley, majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology. After completing my undergraduate degree in three years with high honors, I moved to the Midwest for medical school. At …
Read MoreAbout Me I am very pleased to be able to help you with your skin health and look forward to meeting with you in our clinic. Until then, allow me to acquaint you a bit. After graduating from Stanford University and then UC San Francisco Medical School, I began my first career as a pathologist …
Read MoreAbout Me I was born and raised in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio in a town called Westlake which oddly enough is a few miles south of Lake Erie. From there, I moved to Chicago where I attended college at Northwestern University. While I always knew that I wanted to become a physician, I decided …
Read MoreAbout Me I joined Kaiser Permanente right after finishing my residency. I was drawn by its integrated model of care, collaboration between different medical specialties, and focus on disease prevention and health promotion. It has turned out to be all that, and more. For example, Kaiser Permanente is a leader in incorporating technology to improve …
Read MoreAbout Me I was born and raised in China. In 1990, I was fortunate to be accepted by Harvard University on full scholarship and I received a PhD degree in Biology in 1995. I was awarded my MD degree from Stanford Medical School in 2000. I subsequently completed my residency training at Stanford department of …
Read MoreAbout Me I grew up in Livermore, California, attended Livermore High School, and studied chemistry at Stanford University as an undergraduate. I have a PhD in cell biology/retrovirology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. My clinical interests include anogenital dermatology, diseases of the mucous membranes, sexually transmissible diseases, and dermatopathology. …
Read MoreAbout Me I was born and raised in Romania, but have lived in the United States for 15+ years. I spent most of my time in Southern California, where I did my undergraduate (Pomona College) and medical school (UCLA) studies. I spent some time on the East Coast, working as a clinical research fellow at …
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