Hometown

Cerritos, CA

College

University of Southern California

Medical School

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

About Me

I’m a first generation Chinese-Cambodian American child of refugees who grew up in Cerritos, CA in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Southern California. After graduation, I worked in Sweden on a Fulbright Research Grant and went to medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC. I’m interested in health equity, primary care, and patient education. I also work as an illustrator/comics artist trying to capture the quiet, invisible moments in our lives, and all the feelings contained within them, in extraordinary ways. Outside of work, you can find me drawing out in the wild (or in my room), cooking, running, hiking, or out on an adventure searching for inspiration and exploring new places and experiences.

Why UW Pediatrics/Seattle Children’s?

The breadth of training, from caring for very medically complex patients at Seattle Children’s to working at Harborview (the only level 1 trauma and burn center in the region) to practicing rural general pediatrics during the WWAMI rotation, I wanted to go to a place where I felt like I would be prepared for anything and be able to build any kind of career. And even though the interview was virtual, I could feel how warm and supportive the community was and I just had a good gut feeling. Now that I am here, I can say it has definitely lived up to that feeling and more.

Why Seattle?

All the beautiful nature and green.

I’d love to talk to you about:

My honest thoughts about anything really (residency related or not), but happy to talk about being first gen, primary care, moving to Seattle without any connections or already established community, not having a car in Seattle, art, food, finding balance, etc.

Interests

Primary care, health equity, patient and community education, refugee and immigrant health, adolescent medicine, trauma-informed care, palliative care.

Art, drawing, painting, hiking, food (anything related to eating, cooking, the cultural and social aspects around food and cooking), I’m always up for an adventure and searching for inspiration.