Richard Pan | |
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Member of the California State Senate from the 6th district | |
In office December 1, 2014 –December 5, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Darrell Steinberg |
Succeeded by | Angelique Ashby (redistricted) |
Member of the California State Assembly from the 9th district | |
In office December 3,2012 –November 30,2014 | |
Preceded by | Roger Dickinson (redistricted) |
Succeeded by | Jim Cooper |
Member of the California State Assembly from the 5th district | |
In office December 6,2010 –November 30,2012 | |
Preceded by | Roger Niello |
Succeeded by | Frank Bigelow (redistricted) |
Personal details | |
Born | Richard Juien-Dah Pan October 28,1965 Yonkers,New York,U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Children | 2 |
Education | Johns Hopkins University (BS) University of Pittsburgh (MD) Harvard University (MPH) |
Website | Campaign website |
Chinese name | |
Traditional Chinese | 潘 君 達 |
Simplified Chinese | 潘 君 达 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Pān Jūndá |
Richard Juien-Dah Pan (born October 28,1965) is an American Democratic politician and physician who served in the California State Senate from 2014 to 2022,representing the 6th Senate district,which encompassed parts of Sacramento and Yolo counties. He is also a practicing pediatrician.
Pan was born in Yonkers,New York,and raised in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,to immigrant parents from Taiwan. [1] He earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University,a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh,and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. [2] He completed his pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital also serving as Chief Resident and a fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston in child advocacy and primary care research. [3]
Dr. Pan was a professor at the University of California,Davis where he led the pediatric residency program and founded Communities and Physicians Together,a service learning curriculum that placed physicians-in-training with community settings to learn about social determinants of health. [4] [5]
Prior to being elected to the State Senate in 2014,he was a member of the California State Assembly representing the 5th Assembly District,and after the 2010 redistricting,the 9th Assembly District. Pan was Chair of the California Asian American &Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus.[ when? ]
Following a measles outbreak that began in California [6] [7] and infected 131 people,Pan and Senator Ben Allen introduced California Senate Bill 277 in 2015,which eliminated philosophical and religious beliefs exemptions to vaccine requirements for California school children. The bill passed and was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. Pan authored laws to expand newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (AB395 in 2011),adrenoleukodystrophy (AB1559 in 2014) and all conditions recommended by the federal DHHS Recommended Universal Screening Panel (SB1095 in 2016). Pan authored legislation to extend the California Children's Services Program managed care carve-out (AB301 in 2011) and to establish the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Board to guide Medi-Cal policy affecting children (AB357 in 2014). In 2021 he authored a law (SB 742) that makes illegal to "harass,intimidate,injure or obstruct" people who are on their way to get a vaccination;the law was inspired by an incident in January when protesters targeted and briefly shut down a mass vaccination site in Los Angeles. [8]
Pan and his wife,Wen Li-Wang,have two children. [9]
Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to help the immune system develop immunity from a disease. Vaccines contain a microorganism or virus in a weakened,live or killed state,or proteins or toxins from the organism. In stimulating the body's adaptive immunity,they help prevent sickness from an infectious disease. When a sufficiently large percentage of a population has been vaccinated,herd immunity results. Herd immunity protects those who may be immunocompromised and cannot get a vaccine because even a weakened version would harm them. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified. Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases;widespread immunity due to vaccination is largely responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the elimination of diseases such as polio and tetanus from much of the world. However,some diseases,such as measles outbreaks in America,have seen rising cases due to relatively low vaccination rates in the 2010s –attributed,in part,to vaccine hesitancy. According to the World Health Organization,vaccination prevents 3.5–5 million deaths per year.
The MMR vaccine is a vaccine against measles,mumps,and rubella,abbreviated as MMR. The first dose is generally given to children around 9 months to 15 months of age,with a second dose at 15 months to 6 years of age,with at least four weeks between the doses. After two doses,97% of people are protected against measles,88% against mumps,and at least 97% against rubella. The vaccine is also recommended for those who do not have evidence of immunity,those with well-controlled HIV/AIDS,and within 72 hours of exposure to measles among those who are incompletely immunized. It is given by injection.
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Claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been extensively investigated and found to be false. The link was first suggested in the early 1990s and came to public notice largely as a result of the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud,characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years". The fraudulent research paper,authored by discredited former doctor Andrew Wakefield and published in The Lancet, falsely claimed the vaccine was linked to colitis and autism spectrum disorders. The paper was retracted in 2010 but is still cited by anti-vaccine activists.
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