Class of 2025
Leena Yin, MD (she/her)
Leena was raised in the Asian immigrant enclave of Fremont, Calif. She completed her B.S. in biology at Stanford University, where her campus theater troupe introduced her to historical and present systemic injustices in the U.S. After volunteering at immigrant-centered community clinics in San Jose and Oakland, she decided family medicine was her path to direct service and structural change, and moved on from college to work as a high school sexual health counselor by day and a reproductive justice organizer with Planned Parenthood by night. She then attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she conducted research on language access, founded an immigrant health justice organization, and led the National Asian Pacific American Student Association as advocacy vice president.
Leena is now thrilled to be serving marginalized communities in Seattle and to learn how to be a better healer and organizer from her patients, faculty, and colleagues. Outside of medicine, she enjoys curling up in bed with her cat and a good book, and making her way through all the espresso and boba places in her new city.
Veronica Yu, MD (she/her)
V joins ICHS from the East Coast, where she grew up trekking around New England for swim meets and celebrating holidays with extended family in New York City. She is a proud child of immigrants from Burma and Hong Kong and a middle sister of three. V studied sociology and biological sciences at Wellesley College, which first seeded her interest in working at the intersection of illness and structural inequities. After college, she spent two years in Seattle working as a patient navigator at ICHS, which affirmed her desire to fight for the wellness of immigrant communities through medicine and advocacy.
V made her way back east for medical school at the University of Rochester, where she was lucky to collaborate with creative, passionate classmates on movements to support BIPOC medical trainees, to educate university members on the particular barriers to health care faced by migrant farmworkers, and to write policy banning the shackling of incarcerated, pregnant patients in the hospital. She also spent a lot of time swimming in western New York’s many lakes, hosting potlucks, and tending to her vegetable garden.
V is ecstatic to return to Seattle to work and learn with a group of radically caring, committed, and fierce co-residents. She feels grateful for the opportunity to continue caring for and learning from the diverse patient population at ICHS. Her interests in family medicine include hospital medicine, reproductive justice, and palliative care. Outside of medicine, you can find V re-claiming joy via dance parties, lake swims, and constant snacking.
Class of 2026
Binhan Pham, MD (he/him)
Binhan was born at Swedish First Hill and raised in the greater Seattle area. He attended University of Washington, earning a B.S. in biomedical engineering. After graduation, he worked in engineering before steering his course towards medical school.
In his time at University of Colorado Medical School, he helped lead APAMSA (Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association) and volunteered at a student run clinic for those without health insurance. He is excited to be at his dream program, one that allows him to give back to the very communities that raised him. Thank you to the International Community Health Services team and patients for helping him become the physician he wants to be.
Some of Binhan’s favorite things include cooking, movies, board games, nature walks, and exploring the constantly growing food scene in Seattle.
Sunmi Stephanie Wentzel, MD, MPH (she/they)
Sunmi is so grateful to be a part of the ICHS community. Working as a doctor at ICHS is their dream job! Sunmi is excited to have their patients and community members to serve as their teacher and to shape who they are as a doctor.
When you ask Sunmi where they're from, you may get a different answer every time! As a military kid, what home meant and where home was ever evolving. Their memories are scattered between various cities throughout South Korea and the U.S. But, their heart is consistently wandering the shorelines and alleyways of Busan, South Korea.
Deeply shaped by the mental health struggles of their loved ones, they studied neuroscience at Ohio State University where they spent the majority of their free time building community and advocating for mental wellness among Asian American communities. It was the many hours spent working as a server in various Korean restaurants alongside their found family that solidified their resolve to become a doctor. Witnessing, navigating, and supporting her aunties and uncles through the American health care system inspired them to use medicine to fight for a more compassionate health care system to care for their community.
They attended medical school at Ohio State University, where they worked as a clinic coordinator for the Asian Free Clinic to ensure that the same community that supported her to become a doctor would have access to medical care. They also conducted research in language and socioeconomic disparities, served as APAMSA vice president, and engaged in reproductive and LGBTQ health advocacy.
Sunmi is passionate about full-spectrum family medicine to ensure that their community has access to the care they deserve and need. This includes obstetrics, reproductive justice, addiction medicine, gender affirming care, immigrant/refugee health, and procedures.
On the weekends, you can find Sunmi wandering the streets of the International District going to Mam’s bookstore or finding something delicious to eat. They also enjoy cozying up with a good book, writing poetry, collecting stationary, taking long walks, and urban foraging.
Class of 2027
Patricia Chen, MD (she/they)
Patty grew up in West Windsor, New Jersey in a Mandarin and Cantonese-American family. They studied Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, African Studies, and Dance at Princeton University with coursework abroad at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya and the Bermuda Institute of Oceanic Sciences in Bermuda. After college, Patty lived between New Jersey & New York City as a nanny, dancer, taiko practitioner, premedical student, ecology lab assistant, and coordinator for integrative medicine clinical trials. She’s volunteered as an emergency medical technician with rescue certifications, a belayer for climbers with disabilities, and an organizer in the fitness justice community.
Patty received their medical doctorate at Boston University and loves caring for patients of all ages, social justice medicine and community health, procedural skills, reproductive care, gender care, emergency medicine, and integrative medicine. They speak English in clinical settings and are revisiting their conversational Mandarin skills after many years out of practice.
Timothy de Guzman, MD (he/him)
Tim was born in the Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. While pursuing his Bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, he saw how technology can shift scientific discovery into high-gear, but simultaneously witnessed how tech and rapid growth can also rip communities apart. Following graduation, Tim spent the next few years ensuring under-resourced communities were included in the technological revolutions in health care—whether that be developing a novel breast cancer screening tool for low-resource settings at a biotech company or ensuring equitable access to oncology clinical trials at UCSF.
Tim ventured out from the comforts of home and attended the Medical College of Wisconsin for medical school. Home-sick and culture-shocked, Tim found refuge at the Philippine Center Free Medical Clinic, where the staff he worked alongside became his “titas” and helped him find his center. This experience fostered his love for family medicine—addressing the needs of his patients outside the walls of a clinic and within a cultural context.
Tim is thrilled to continue caring for and learning from a diverse patient population while at ICHS. He is also grateful to be learning alongside such passionate, caring, and fierce co-residents. His clinical interests include health care for LGBTQ+-communities, addiction medicine, and HIV medicine. Outside of the hospital, Tim enjoys cooking vegetables he grew from his garden, throwing clay on the potter’s wheel, and baking bread.
