Margaret Chung

Overview

Margaret Chung born Santa Barbara, California October 2, 1889 (d. January 5, 1959). First known American-born Chinese female physician. After graduating from the University of Southern California Medical School in 1916 and completing her internship and residency in Illinois, she established one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 1920s.

Quotations

“Women of every nation, every country, should learn medicine, so that they can teach the women of their countries and their races how to care for themselves and their children—how to improve the coming generation.”

— Margaret Chung, Los Angeles Herald profile, 1914