Eliza Lo Chin

Eliza Lo Chin (born 1967) is an American internist with an interest in women's health. She is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the executive director of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA). Chin was president of AMWA from 2010 to 2011. In 2002, she edited the anthology, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine.

Early life and education Chin was born in 1967. She earned a B.A. with honors in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989.

Career In 1997, Chin was appointed assistant clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The idea for the book, she says, "was borne out of a personal need for mentoring. Being a young mother, physician, and wife, I found myself perpetually struggling to achieve some semblance of balance in my life. As a clinician-educator at Columbia University, I frequently encountered medical students and residents contemplating these very same issues. Yet how had other women physicians managed to structure their lives so admirably? Surely my situation was hardly unique, despite the realities of having two young children and a surgical resident husband. Thus the notion of collecting written experiences began to take shape."

Chin is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.