Medical Student
University of California, San Francisco
Anthony Nguyen, BS, is currently a medical student at UCSF. Coming from a first-generation immigrant family who had to leave everything they knew behind in Vietnam as they immigrated to the United States in search of opportunity, family values and education became the biggest values throughout Anthony's life. He grew up in Stockton, CA. Out of 57,000 applicants, he was one of 1,000 to win the coveted Gates Millenium Scholarship. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in Biological Sciences and additionally dived deep into the joys of research through the American Chemical Society and biochemistry laboratories at the University of the Pacific. Today, he holds paramount interest in utilizing the skills he's learned in pursuit of clinical research that can improve human health. His research examines gender differences in medical complications of eating disorders among adolescents and young adults.