My family and I left Vietnam after the war as refugees. Thankful for the opportunities afforded to me in this country, and through the values instilled in me by my parents, I feel privileged to be a pediatrician. I grew up in San Diego and completed my undergraduate degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in public health at the University of California Los Angeles. I then attended medical school in the San Francisco Bay Area and completed a pediatric residency at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. For over 13 years, I served our country in the United States Navy as a pediatrician caring for military families and their dependents. I deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and had duty stations on the West Coast, Japan, and Italy. We are happy now to be in my wife’s hometown and to establish roots for our daughter.