Summary: This is an oral history describing the life of Dr. Mai Phuong Nguyen who was born in Dalat, Vietnam on February 28, 1969. She currently resides in Fountain Valley, California and is a doctor whose new practice Karuna Healthcare Consultants will launch April 2012. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Irvine where she majored in Premed and minored in Spanish Lit and took a big part in Project Ngoc. She later went on to medical school at the University of Southern California. This interview focused on her story as a Vietnamese American from the Vietnam War to present day.

Decade of Birth: 1960-1969

Subject (s): Medical professional | Activist | Healthcare | Physician | Immigration | Education | Family | Acculturation | College or university | Fountain Valley, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Project Ngoc (UCI) | Human rights | Humanitarian organization

Type: Sound

Duration: 01:52:00

Language: English

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Provenance: Recorded Digitally

Publisher: University of California, Irvine Libraries. Southeast Asian Archive. Irvine, California 92623-9557.

Permanent link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/2086