Navigating the Intern Year: Challenges and Emotions

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Alice Mao is an internal medicine and geriatric medicine physician who is passionate about social equity, community empowerment, and innovations in primary care. She was born in China and grew up in Canada and the US. She completed medical school at UCSF, internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, and geriatric medicine fellowship at Stanford. She is currently a primary care provider at On Lok Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly where she gets to take care of help vulnerable seniors stay home for as long as possible. Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, giving her cat cheek scratches, and resurrecting her childhood dreams of learning how to freestyle dance.