
Preston Dang, Advocacy Committee Member
Preston Dang is a second-year osteopathic medical student at Western University-College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, California. He is originally from Orange County, California, completed his B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA, and M.P.H. at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. From his college years until now, he has been heavily involved in local outreach within Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities, volunteering and coordinating free clinics providing health services such as glucose and cholesterol screenings and osteopathic manipulative treatment to the local community, as well as community health research among AANHPI populations. He also participates regularly in state- and national-level advocacy, from serving as a primary delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates to direct advocacy as a representative of the Los Angeles County Medical Association during annual legislative days in Sacramento, California, organized by the California Medical Association. Having previously been a member of Advocacy Committee during the prior term, he is excited to continue to contribute to APAMSA’s advocacy initiatives and priorities over his second term on Advocacy Committee. After medical school, he hopes to be able to draw on his previous experiences and to continue participating in advocacy efforts as a family medicine physician.