One of VA’s first medical doctors known to be of Asian American-Pacific Island heritage was Dr. Edmund Dixon Jung. Edmund Dixon Jung was a third generation American of Chinese heritage, born to Ming and Mabel Jung in California on January 29, 1914. He was the middle child to siblings Robert and Lucille and grew up in the San Francisco area. He attended and graduated from Stanford University then pursued a medical degree at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) where he graduated in 1944. He met his future wife, Haw Chan, while they both attended medical school. He enlisted at the Presidio with the U.S. Army medical department on June 24, 1943 and served in the South Pacific as a medical officer during World War II. [photo, left, 1937 Stanford University yearbook] After his war service, he resumed his medical career. He undertook an internship at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, then completed his first year of residency at UCSF hospital before becoming a resident at the San Francisco VA hospital. At the time, he needed a total of 3 years’ residency for a specialty in internal medicine, but he stayed an extra year after being appointed Chief Medical Resident. He began his full-time career as a VA physician in 1951 at the Oakland VA hospital where he provided primary care to acutely ill veterans. He obtained additional training in allergies and was appointed as Chief of the Allergy section in 1959.
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