Dr. Christina Lee is a family medicine physician who cares for patients of all ages. She graduated and received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1996 from UC Irvine School of Medicine. She completed her Family Medicine residency at USC-PIH in 1999.
Dr. Lee immigrated to the USA in her teenage years through the sponsorship of a Christian family who opened their small house and big hearts for her and her aunts who survived the genocidal war in Cambodia. Her sponsor’s kind act coupled with Dr. Lee’s personal family loss that she had experienced during the war inspired her to serve in the Cambodian community as well as any other community who may need help.
Dr. Lee’s desire is to be involved in activities that have interactions with people and as such, she had chosen medicine as her career. She cares for her patients with empathy and compassion. Her heart is in volunteering and community work. Her volunteer activities range from being speaker of health topics to blood pressure checks or answering health questions at health fairs and to being a speaker at various community events.
Because she believes that education is the key to a person’s future, she strongly encourages others to pursue education. Because she loves education, she pursues a Master Degree in Divinity despite her busy work schedule, family and community volunteering and recently succeeded in achieving the Master Degree.
Dr. Lee feels very blessed to have 4 small children; her youngest is her 7 years old girl with whom she felt what a close mother-daughter relationship could be which she herself did not have growing up because she was an orphan due to the genocide war during the Khmer Rouge Regime.
For hobbies, Dr. Lee enjoys fishing, eating Cambodian foods, and playing, singing and listening to inspiring songs. She also believes in the importance of having personal spirituality which is a very important component in a person’s life. This personal faith can make positive impact on the individual and on the community as a whole, promoting inner peace, love, and joy that transcend into the community as well.
Some of her achievements include UCC’s Elected Official Community Appreciation Award that recognized leadership, dedication and commitment to the Cambodian community. She also had received awards such as the Avner Biology Award from UC Irvine, California the Talbert Medical President’s Choice Award, and Talbert’s Innovation Award.