Dr. Alice Chen is a practicing physician and Executive Director of Doctors for America. She got involved in health reform advocacy after one too many patients suffering for lack of health insurance. Since 2008, she has been a leader in Doctors for America – a grassroots movement that mobilizes thousands of physicians and medical students in all fifty states to work toward access to affordable, high-quality health care for everyone. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed internal medicine residency at UCLA. She currently splits her time between Doctors for America in DC and taking care of patients and training residents at UCLA. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area.