Dr. Tony Kuan-Yu Lin, MD

I was born in a poor farming village in southern Taiwan to an entirely nonmedical family. My father, who had always aspired to become a physician but never had the financial means, decided to leave his farming life and family behind and migrate to the U.S. in the early '70s with the hope that he would be able to give my mother, my sister, and I a better life. After several years of being apart, we were able to reunite in the U.S., and the rest is history. I aspired to become a physician not only to make my father and mother proud, but also because of what they taught me-that I could achieve anything if I worked hard enough for it. From my father's stories of famine during his childhood to taking care of my three cancer-stricken grandparents, my sisters and I must have learned something. My older sister is a pharmacist and my younger sister an ophthalmologist. I reside in the beautiful town of Claremont. I enjoy traveling the world, playing golf, and watching UCLA basketball.