Alice Chen

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 a founding member and former director of the nonprofit organization Doctors for America. Early life and education Chen is from the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied biology at Yale University. 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. She lived in Morse College. 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. She moved to the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University for her medical degree, and graduated in 2005. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Chen volunteered as a caseworker for the American Red Cross. 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. Here she served as director of the UCLA residency program in Malawi.