Announcement
May has been a special month for a few reasons:
It’s my birth month. 🧁
It’s AAPI month. 👸🏻
Peonies, my fave, are in season. 🌸
But also…
May 23, 2024 marks exactly 10 years since my last day of med school and embarking on my professional journey as a medical doctor.
Originally, med school just wasn’t right for me on the grounds that my Chinese mother expected me to be premed day 1 of college because, you know 🙄. I REFUSED to be another stereotypical Asian premed under parental and cultural pressure. So I studied design. This is akin to being a struggling artist or future homeless person in the eyes of Asian parents, if you were raised in the 80s and 90s.
But my journey took a turn when I decided, on my own terms, that personal health was more important than being the next Zaha Hadid.
It was, and still is, obvious from the periphery that healthcare is fucked up and terrible at treating people with chronic disease. I found functional and integrative medicine early in my own health journey. This gave me hope and inspired me to pursue medicine as a career. I thought “Maybe I can help change healthcare from within.” And, “Why aren’t doctors emphasizing nutrition and lifestyle as part of treatment?”
Well, I learned through first hand experience how rigid, toxic, exploitative, and engrained the “system” is, and how rigid and antiquated medical education is.
10 years later, after having gone through the gauntlet of school, training, endless post-graduate education, and countless hours of “donated” overtime in corporatized healthcare, a path to change medicine became obvious on a phone convo with a long time buddy.
It starts with the re-education of doctors and the unlearning of the old paradigm.
I’m excited to announce I’ve co-founded the American Board of Precision Medicine (ABOPM), a 501c3 nonprofit on a mission to push the evolution of mainstream medicine to personalized, N of 1 care.
What is precision medicine?
It’s whole-person care that connects the dots between your unique genetic blueprint, your environment, and your lifestyle. It’s predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory (P4) medicine, as coined by Dr. Lee Hood. We’re here to bring precision medicine into every doctor’s office through the practical education, training, and board certification of qualified MDs and DOs. We want you and your loved ones to experience the next level of care you deserve in this lifetime. As doctors, of course we want the best for our patients, but we can’t provide that if we don’t have the right framework to approach your health and if we’re not aware of the cutting edge research and advancements already available. That’s where the ABOPM steps in.
In the spirit of AAPI month,
I’m also proud to announce that this board is founded by Asian American doctors; myself (Exec VP), Dr. Anil Bajnath (President), and Dr. Vishal Gulati (CMO).
Help turn our vision into a realty!
Support the cause with a small tax deductible donation to our nonprofit to help kickstart our mission and get our infrastructure built up. We have 3 core projects that need funding - the Precision Medicine course, board review course, and the board exam itself. Your donations will help fund the honorariums for 40-50 top physicians and research scientists to lead and teach the courses, all the software and web development needed to make the magic happen, necessary staffing to run the organization, board exam development, and obtaining CME accreditation.
It is a $1 million dollar project that will help transform the practice of medicine and better equip doctors to help you live a healthier life, longer. Help us grow and architect the new standard of care.
If you’re a MD/DO or med student reading this, come sign up on our waiting list and be part of the evolution. www.theabopm.org
Reach out for any questions.
With love and gratitude,
Dr. Sharon Ng
