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Alice Chen
Born
San Francisco Bay Area[citation needed]
EducationYale University (BS)
Cornell University (MD)
Spouse
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(m. 2015)​
Scientific career
InstitutionsDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Harvard Kennedy School

Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has previously been a Hauser Visiting Leader at Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and assistant clinical professor position at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Chen was the founding director of the nonprofit organisation Doctors for America.

Early life and education

Chen is from the San Francisco Bay Area.[1] She studied biology at Yale University.[2][3] When she arrived at Yale, Chen played violin and piano, but she picked up several more extra curricular activities, including Russian and Chinese calligraphy, during the course of her undergraduate studies.[4] She lived in Morse College.[3] She was a student at Yale when she first became involved with campaigning, taking part in a protest on New Haven Green to stand against land mines.[4] She moved to the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University for her medical degree, and graduated in 2005.[1] In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Chen volunteered as a caseworker for the American Red Cross.[5] For the following six months she helped to lead the largest service center in Manhattan. Chen was an internal medicine resident at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.[4] Here she served as director of the UCLA residency program in Malawi.[5]

Research and career

In the leadup to the 2008 United States presidential election Chen signed an open letter from Doctors for Obama calling for reform of the United states healthcare system.[4][6] After the election of Barack Obama, the doctors regrouped and renamed themselves Doctors for America.[7] The campaigning transcended Chen's personal and professional life, and she became an advocate for engaging members of the academic community in policy issues.[4] Chen is an advocate for healthcare equity and has worked to ensure access to high-quality, affordable healthcare for all in the United States.[2]

In 2011 Chen became the executive of Doctors for America, and led the organisation for six years.[5][8] Doctors for America is a nonprofit who mobilise physicians and medical students to improve the health of people in the United States.[9] In this capacity she was at the forefront of policy changes, such as the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[10] She called for mass shootings to be treated as a public health issue.[11]

In 2017 Chen was appointed a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government.[5] During her position Chen studied the epidemic of loneliness, which was thought to impact almost half of American adults, as well as the health impacts of global warming.[12][13] She also studied how public health policy changed in the post-Obama administration world.[2]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chen called for people who were isolating to remember to set aside time everyday to check-in with their friends and families, and to use their time in lockdown to find ways to help others.[14][15] In an interview with CBC News, Chen said that the social isolation "can spiral into depression or anxiety, and this can have serious ramifications on a person's physical and mental health".[14] Writing with her husband and fellow physician, Vivek Murthy, in The Atlantic, Chen argued that the lingering damage of breaking up communities would be more difficult to measure than the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on the economy.[16] She was appointed to Kishan Putta's coronavirus disease advisory board, which looked to advise the council member on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.[17]

Personal life

As of 2015, Chen is married to Vivek Murthy, M.D., a former Surgeon General of the United States.[18][19] They have a son and a daughter.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Alice Chen, MD – Netroots Nation". Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  2. ^ a b c d "Health Policy: A View From the Inside featuring Dr. Alice Chen and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy". KENNEDY SCHOOL REVIEW. 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  3. ^ a b Raven, Kathleen. "A return to Morse, a commitment to advocacy, and selfies at the lipstick". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  4. ^ a b c d e Raven, Kathleen. "A return to Morse, a commitment to advocacy, and selfies at the lipstick". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  5. ^ a b c d "Fall 2017 Hauser Leaders Announced". cpl.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  6. ^ "Doctors Across America Support Public Health Insurance Option". Center for American Progress Action. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  7. ^ "Alice Chen | The PPL". Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  8. ^ "Dr. Alice Chen - Doctors for America". www.drsforamerica.org. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  9. ^ "About Us - Doctors for America". www.drsforamerica.org. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  10. ^ "Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  11. ^ "Democrats, doctors say mass shootings need public health approach". Modern Healthcare. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  12. ^ "Work and the Loneliness Epidemic: A Conversation with Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General (2014-2017) and Dr. Alice Chen, Co-Founder, Doctors for America". cpl.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  13. ^ Chen, Alice; Murthy, Vivek (2019-09-18). "How Health Systems Are Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change". Harvard Business Review. ISSN 0017-8012. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  14. ^ a b "Exercising during isolation? Don't forget to flex those social muscles too". CBC. Retrieved 2020-05-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "Former Surgeon General, Director of Doctors for America Talk Positivity in the COVID-19 Era | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  16. ^ Chen, Vivek H. Murthy, Alice T. (2020-03-22). "The Coronavirus Could Cause a Social Recession". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-05-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "Obama Surgeon General heads new DC Corona Task Force – Kishan for DC". Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  18. ^ "The U.S. Surgeon General Got Married This Weekend". Boston Magazine. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  19. ^ "US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy marries Dr. Alice Chen". The American Bazaar. 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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