I’m third-generation Korean, born and raised in the Los Angeles area. My grandparents came to the United States more than a century ago. I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend college on a gymnastics scholarship, where I competed against future Olympic gold medalists, and afterward, attended medical school there. I moved to Seattle for ophthalmology training and found it felt more like home than California. I’m married, and we have a son and a daughter, both of whom are in college.