The People of Raffles

Dr Chen was born in Taiwan and immigrated to Montreal Canada in childhood. After completing her medical training in Canada in 1986, she has been working as a family doctor in the USA, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.

Dr Chen attained her Family Medicine Residency at the Jewish General Hospital, under McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She also has a Master's Degree in Public Health from the University of California in Berkeley, and obtained a Preventive Medicine Residency in University of California San Francisco, as well as a Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship in San Francisco General Hospital. She was also certified by the Harvard Global Mental Health - Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program. 

She used to work with ‘Doctors without Borders’ in refugee camps in Hong Kong, and also teach family medicine at Hong Kong Chinese University and at the Family Medicine Residency Program at San Francisco General Hospital in the USA in the early 1990s. She has been a clinic doctor at Raffles Hospital Beijing since 1998. She is a designated panel physician for United Nations, Tricare and for the Canadian Embassy.

Dr Chen is married with two children and has extensive experience in the challenges of expatriate living.