October 26, 2022
Senator and pediatrician Richard Pan, M.D. obtained the 2022 California Medical Association (CMA) Gary Krieger Speaker’s Recognition Award. The recipient of this award is hand-selected by the CMA Speaker of the House for outstanding contributions to CMA and its House of Delegates. The award was introduced this previous weekend at CMA’s annual assembly in Los Angeles.
Dr. Pan has been a member of CMA and the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society since 1999. In addition to serving organized medication as a CMA trustee and delegate, in 2010 Dr. Pan was elected to serve within the California Legislature and has spent the previous 12 years working tirelessly to enhance lives of Californians.
Dr. Pan has been a catalyst for optimistic change locally creating modern instructional applications, increasing entry to well being care for youngsters and bringing individuals collectively to deal with group priorities.
TIME journal known as Dr. Pan a “hero” when he authored landmark laws to abolish non-medical exemptions to legally required vaccines for varsity college students, thereby restoring group immunity from preventable contagions. Dr. Pan additionally authored one of the vital expansive state legal guidelines regulating well being plans eliminating denials for pre-existing situations and prohibited discrimination by well being standing and medical historical past. He calls for transparency and accountability in state well being applications; holding hearings on lowering fraud, investigating poor entry to dental care, and making certain youngsters with most cancers and different severe situations have entry to pediatric specialty care. Dr. Pan supplied management in enrolling households for well being protection, leading to halving the variety of uninsured in California, and he sponsored quite a few well being gala’s offering sources together with free glasses, dental screenings, and vaccines.
