I was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to draw portrait illustrations of medical pioneers
Dr. Abraham Verghese is an Indian American professor and best-selling author. In 2015 he received the National Humanities Medal
Dr. Tetsuko Akutso was a Japanese American surgeon and pioneer in artificial heart developmentv
Dr. David Ho is a Taiwanese American HIV/AIDS researcher and pioneer. He was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1996
Dr. Richard Kekuni Blaisdell was a Native Hawaiian professor who paved the path for the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act
Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga is a Filipino American pediatric immunologist who was named one of Time 100’s most influential people in the world in 2013 for being one of the researchers who “functionally cured” newborns of AIDS
Dr. Margaret Chung is the first Chinese American woman to become a physician in 1916, and in the early 1920s, she established one of the first Western medical clinics in SF’s Chinatown
Dr. Marjorie Mau is the first Native Hawaiian woman recognized as a “Master physician” in 2016