Feature · 01
2022 — 2024
Closing gaps in primary care, one panel at a time.
Built a pipeline that surfaced care-gap lists to frontline teams weekly. Moved screening rates up 4.2pts across a million-member population.
Health plan · OAKFeature
Medical student at CHSU-COM in California's Central Valley. Public health at Berkeley. MPH at Yale. Health-equity work for a million-member plan. PM&R next.
Sunday suppers, almond groves, and a long, quiet obsession with airplanes — the unremarkable daily rituals that shape a life in medicine.
My parents arrived in Fresno from Battambang with one suitcase between them, three phrases of English, and a conviction that their children would be okay. I am the youngest of four, the first doctor-to-be, the one who took the long route and came back.
Public health at Berkeley taught me that medicine without policy is a leaky bucket. An MPH at Yale taught me how to patch it. Four years embedded in a plan covering a million people taught me where the water actually goes — and who doesn't get a cup.
I'm back now, training at CHSU-COM, eyes on Physical Medicine & Rehab. I am trying to keep the same set of principles through each leg of the journey: care for the one in front of you, design for the thousand you'll never meet, and keep looking up.
Each stop earned me something I didn't know I needed. Here's the whole route, printed end-to-end — plus a stamp for every leg.
Born to Cambodian refugees. Youngest of four. First in the family to stay up watching airplanes and call it homework.
Learned that a prescription pad is a small lever. Policy is a longer one. I wanted both.
Winters in New Haven. First real taste of the other coast. A thesis on access, not theory.
Four years building programs that move the needle in tenths of a point. Tenths add up.
Back to the valley that raised me, on the other side of the stethoscope. PM&R, hopefully. Still watching airplanes.
Papers, programs, one very long spreadsheet. A representative sample of what I've actually shipped.
Built a pipeline that surfaced care-gap lists to frontline teams weekly. Moved screening rates up 4.2pts across a million-member population.
Peer-reviewed analysis of cancer-screening gaps across SES strata. Cited in a state policy brief the following year.
Clinical interest project: how PM&R can meet seasonal ag-labor injuries where they actually happen — in the fields, not the clinic.
Collaborations in public health, medical education, and rehab are always welcome. Magic-hour runway tips too — especially 28R, especially in July.