Judges
Vincent Chong, MD
Dr. Vincent Chong is a trauma surgeon at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he also serves as the hospital colead for the Safe Harbor Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program. He received a degree in Ethnic Studies from Brown University and is a graduate of the UCSF- UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program. Dr. Chong completed his general surgery training at UCSF-East Bay in Oakland, California and is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine. His research focus is on the psychosocial needs of persons recovering from violent injury and improving clinical care through community engagement.
Junko Ozao-Choy, MD, FACS
Dr. Ozao-Choy is the Vice Chair, Research in the Department of Surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center as well as an Associate Professor of Surgery at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed her surgical residency in New York at Mount Sinai and then received further training completing a surgical oncology fellowship at John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica. She subsequently joined the Department of Surgery at Harbor-UCLA in 2014. Her clinical interests include management of breast, melanoma, soft tissue and advanced peritoneal malignancies. Her research interests include immunotherapy, breast cancer and melanoma as well as health disparities.
Peggy S. Sullivan, MD
Dr. Sullivan is a Women’ s Health Surgical Pathologist, Cytopathologist, and Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She received her medical degree at the USC Keck School of Medicine and completed her pathology residency and fellowship training at UCLA. She actively teaches clinical trainees and medical students on the breast, OB / GYN pathology and cytopathology services as well as the fine needle aspiration clinic. Her research interests include quality and clinical research projects in resident education, women’ s health, and cytopathology.
Sharon Younkin, PhD
Dr. Younkin received her Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology from Ohio State University in 1992, and she currently serves as the Chief of Staff for the Vice Dean for Education at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Younkin’ s research interests are in medical education, medical student well-being, humanism in medicine, community health, health disparities; community based anticipatory research, and community-campus partnerships.
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