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Presentation: Treating Hypertension in Chinese Americans: How Are We Doing? Can We Do Better?
Time: Saturday Morning
Purpose: To update the practitioner on hypertension assessment and management in North American Chinese patients.
Objectives:
Review epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in Chinese American patients, and the need to screen and educate patients regarding hypertension in primary care.
Review tailoring management of hypertension for North American Chinese patients.
Review language and communication barriers to hypertension management in Chinese patients, and how they can be surmounted to improve compliance outcomes.
Current Positions:
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Cardiology, UCSF School of Medicine
Director of the Cardiology Consultation Service, the Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory, and the Asian Heart & Vascular Center, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
Bio
Dr. Gordon L. Fung, a cardiologist, is an expert in the treatment of heart disease with a special interest in cardiac rehabilitation, cardiovascular pharmacology, echocardiography, and preventive cardiology. Fung is certified as a Hypertension Specialist by the American Society of Hypertension. At UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, he is Director of Cardiac Services and the nation’s first Asian Heart & Vascular Center. At the UCSF Medical Center’s Moffitt/Long Hospitals, he directs the Electrocardiography Laboratory. Fung's research explores advances in preventive cardiology and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease. Fung earned a master's degree in public health in hospital economics and administration at the University of California, Berkeley and a medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed an internal medicine residency and was chief resident at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, CA. He completed a clinical cardiology fellowship at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinez, CA. He has been active in the activities American Heart Association at national, state, and local levels and has served on the association's national board of directors. He is currently a member of the AHA Diversity Leadership Committee and Liaison to the Scientific Advisory and Coordinating Committee. He is also active in the American College of Cardiology and is a past member of its Board of Governors. In 2005, Fung was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome to represent the San Francisco Medical Society and the San Francisco physicians on the Healthy San Francisco development project and remains a member of the Oversight Advisory Committee for HSF. In 2006, Dr. Fung was appointed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to represent the Asian Community on the Council of Multicultural Health. In 2007, Dr. Fung received a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Chinese Philosophy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. Fung is a clinical professor of medicine and cardiology at UCSF School of Medicine.