Margaret Chung

First American-Chinese female physician

Margaret Jessie Chung (Chinese: ???, October 2, 1889 – January 5, 1959), born in Santa Barbara, California, was the first known American-born Chinese female physician.After graduating from the University of Southern California Medical School in 1916 and completing her internship and residency in Illinois, she established one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 1920s.