Lena Wong was was a rotating fellow who served at Tuba City Regional Health Care in Tuba City, Arizona and at Possible in Nepal (2015-2017). She was born and raised in the wonderland that is New Jersey. She attended Rutgers University as an undergrad where following a few trips overseas to South Africa and China, she saw the inequities in access to medicine and education and decided to go to medical school with an interest in international health. She moved to Philadelphia to attend medical school at Temple University, mostly to watch her beloved Flyers play. She went on to do a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in Miami, working mostly in the county hospital. With the diversity in the patient population, ability to work with the underserved and a great exposure to tropical medicine, she travelled south for the first time in her life and found it warm and amazing. She then went onto the HEAL fellowship with a focus on health care systems development, program planning and quality improvement. She stayed in the Navajo Nation following this but then completed a second fellowship in Infectious Disease back in Miami. She will return to the Navajo Nation to continue working on adult and child medicine, as well as infectious disease.
Field of work: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Infectious Disease.
Areas of interest: Public Health, QI, ID, Community Engagement, Community Health Work