She is the former Medical Director at the Urban Rest Stop Health Center and served as a Physician in Khmer and Ban Thad Vietnamese Refugee Camps. She currently serves as a board member on the Ethics Committee and the Ambulatory Care Advisory Committee at Harborview and on the board for the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program Office of Multicultural Affairs. She has received numerous awards, including the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Award, the Foster McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, the UW Medicine Service Excellence Award, Washington State 2010 Internist of the Year Award from the American College of Physicians, and was a “Leaders in Health Care” Award Finalist from Seattle Business Magazine.