A Conversation with
Tung T. Nguyen, MD
During this informal discussion, Dr. Nguyen will share his thoughts on his own career development and mentorship:
■What if your career does not go as planned?
■How to have both depth and breadth in a career.
■Reflections on his own work-life that has been both balanced and unbalanced.

Dr. Nguyen is Professor of Medicine at UCSF. He is a general internist who provides primary care to a diverse population. His research focuses on achieving health equity using community-based participatory research (CBPR), patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR), and other stakeholder-engaged methods. Dr. Nguyen has conducted intervention research using social networks, traditional media, and mobile application with culturally and linguistically diverse populations on breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening, patient navigation, tobacco control, hepatitis
B and C screening, nutrition and physical activity, and end-of-life care.
Dr. Nguyen is UCSF associate vice chancellor of research inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism (IDEA) and a principal investigator of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). At the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Nguyen is associate director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) and Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Research Program. He is also a principal investigator of SFBUILD, an NIH-funded partnership between UCSF and San Francisco State University to promote health research workforce diversity. Dr. Nguyen is a bilingual first-generation Vietnamese American who founded the
Asian American Research Center on Health (ARCH) and served as Chair
of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.