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12 Facts About Alice Chen

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Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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Alice Chen 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, DC Chen was a founding member and former director of the nonprofit organization Doctors for America.

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When she arrived at Yale, Chen played violin and piano but she picked up several more extracurricular activities including Russian and Chinese calligraphy during the course of her undergraduate studies.

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Alice Chen 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.

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Alice Chen moved to the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University for her medical degree, and graduated in 2005.

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Alice Chen was an internal medicine resident at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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Alice Chen became an advocate for engaging members of the academic community in policy issues.

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Alice Chen called for mass shootings to be treated as a public health issue.

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In 2017, Chen was appointed a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, John F Kennedy School of Government.

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Alice Chen studied how public health policy changed in the post-Obama administration world.

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Alice Chen was appointed to Kishan Putta's COVID-19 advisory board, which looked to advise the council member on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In 2015, Alice Chen married Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States.