Dr. Pan is past chair of the California Asian American Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus and took an active role in outreach to Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities and immigrants. As a pediatrician, he ensured children were counted in the decennial census including engaging teachers and school districts. Dr. Pan was personally involved in communicating the importance of decennial census participation on social and traditional media.

Before serving in the California legislature, Dr. Pan was Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at University of California, Davis where he directed the Pediatric Residency Program, created a nationally recognized service-learning curriculum on social determinants of health and published research about community-based medical education, medical decision-making and workforce. He has held local, state and national leadership positions in civic and professional organizations.

Dr. Pan continues to practice and teach at the Sacramento County Primary Care Center. Dr. Pan earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, a Medical Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. He completed his pediatric residency and served as Chief Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed a fellowship in child advocacy and health services research at Children’s Hospital in Boston.