Jason J. Ahn
UCLA HEALTH
Metro Region: Los Angeles
Member Since: 2017
Dr. Ahn completed his training in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. After residency, he was a National Clinician Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He earned an MD at Harvard Medical School and an MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership.
During his medical training, Dr. Ahn directed and produced Divided Families, a documentary film chronicling the plight of American families of Korean descent who separated from their loved ones by the Korean War. Subsequently, through Divided Families USA, he helped pass a resolution in the US Congress that encouraged formal mechanisms of reunion.
Dr. Ahn has volunteered with Partners In Health as a medical student and physician in Haiti and Rwanda. He conducted field surveys and research in post-earthquake Haiti with the Korea International Cooperation Agency.
Prior to his medical training, he was a Fulbright Scholar to South Korea. He earned his double major in molecular cell biology and history with honors at the University of California, Berkeley.