
Cambodian Health Professionals Association of America
930 Pine Avenue Long Beach, CA 90813 USA Phone: (562) 269-5661 Email: [email protected]
930 Pine Avenue Long Beach, CA 90813 USA Phone: (562) 269-5661 Email: [email protected]
As to why I do what I do, I would like to quote His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama on his thoughts on Universal Responsibility; “I believe that we must consciously develop a greater sense of Universal Responsibility. We must learn to work not only for our own individual self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. “
Christopher is currently married with twin boys. One boy is working for LADWP and another is pursuing his MD degree at Case Western Reserve University. Christopher has been working as a transportation engineer over 29 years with consultant firms and with the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation. Christopher has been actively involved with Cambodian communities and Buddhist temples.
She helps with fundraisers, performances, medicine packing, singing, and opens her house to store CHPAA supplies. In addition to volunteering, her joys are watching her three grandsons, gardening, exercising and making time for her friends.
CHPAA is pleased to recognize Lynne Porter, Douglas Fulton, Robert Negrin, Irit Baraand, and Naomi Granvold who have dedicated 5 years to medical missions in Cambodia. Their devotion is priceless.
Dr. Tan is a Board Certified Pediatrician in private practice since the 80’s in Long Beach, California. After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime, in forced labor camps, he embarked on a perilous journey by foot to escape to the Cambodian-Thai border’s refugee camps.
After living in the Refugee Camps in Thailand for over a year, and almost six year-long ordeal, he was at last resettled for a new life in San Francisco, where he worked as a Health Worker and Interpreter. He went on to complete his Pediatric Residency Training at the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine/Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
He has been involved in multiple local hospital leadership positions. He was the Chair of Pediatric Medicine at Miller Children’s Hospital/Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and current Chair of the Pediatric Department at St Mary Medical Center, Long Beach. He served as a Board member of the Department of Health and Human Services of the City of Long Beach (1998-2006). He has been on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of The Children’s Clinic, Long Beach since 1999, Founding Board member, VicePresident, and Secretary of the Cambodian Coordinating Council since 1999.
He has received numerous awards: The Katherine White Humanitarian Award (The Children’s Clinic, Long Beach), Outstanding Community Service Excellence Merit Award 2010 (Cambodian American Business Association), Outstanding Volunteer Award (Healthy Kids Coalition of Long Beach ), Immunization Innovation Award (California Department of Health Services, presented by the former First Lady of California, Gayle Wilson), Special Recognition for Southeast Asian Immunization Video Project (UCLA School of Public Health), Outstanding Volunteer Award (United Cambodian Community).
He is the President/Founder of the Cambodian Health Professionals Association of America (CHPAA). Besides English, he speaks Khmer (Cambodian), French, Chinese, and conversational and medical Spanish.
An avid hiker, he has hiked most of the local mountains including San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, Mt. Baldy, Half-Dome of Yosemite. His most memorable hike was his trek to the majestic and mythical Himalayas in Nepal, reaching Kalapatar and Mt. Everest Base-Camp.