Dr. Alice Wong, an examining physician at the Student Health Center, has been named chief of the center's medical clinics, while William Chien, Psy.D., has been appointed as a staff psychologist at the Counseling Center. Wong received her medical degree in 1981 from Eastern Virginia Medical School and her master's degree in public health in 1992 from the UCLA School of Public Health. She served an internship in internal medicine at Rutgers University in New Jersey and completed her residency in internal medicine at the USC Los Angeles County Medical Center. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. As chief of the Student Health Center's medical clinics, Wong will oversee physicians, nurses and other health care professionals who provide a full range of services to students, from emergency medical care and health maintenance to pharmacy service and health education on such topics as nutrition and sexual health.
Health services are available to all students who pay full registration fees.
Chien received his training at the California School of Professional Psychologists in Los Angeles, and has acquired expertise in providing psychological services to the Asian American population. For the past year, Chien has served as a counseling psychologist at the Counseling Center on a casual basis. In addition to providing individual and group counseling and therapy services at the center, staff members teach classes, conduct workshops throughout the campus, speak at student-organized seminars, conduct workshops tailored for individual academic departments and manage psychological crises. Just as important, their appointments underscore our commitment to providing a diverse staff whose members reflect the campus' ethnic composition, and who will serve as role models for our students. The Regents of the University of California.