Patrick Soon-Shiong (Chinese: 黃馨祥; pinyin: Huáng Xīnxiáng, Mandarin pronunciation: [xu̯ɑ̌ŋ ɕín ɕi̯ɑ̌ŋ]; born July 29, 1952) is a South African-born American surgeon, professor and researcher, entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist. He is currently chair of NantWorks, LLC, Executive Director of the Wireless Health Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles, an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at UCLA, and a visiting Professor at the Imperial College London. [self-published source?] He is also chair of the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation and chair and CEO of the Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health, National LambdaRail, and the Healthcare Transformation Institute. Soon-Shiong has been a minority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers since 2010. In April 2016, the Los Angeles Times reported him to be one of the highest paid CEOs for 2015. As of November 2016, Soon-Shiong was estimated by Forbes as having a net worth of US$9 billion, ranking him #47 among US billionaires. As of December 9th, 2016, Dr. Soon-Shiong has 230 issued USA and international patents, with 92 in the United States and 138 international.
Early life and education
Soon-Shiong was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa to Chinese immigrant parents who fled from China during the Japanese occupation in World War II. His parents were originally from Toisan in Guangdong, China, from among the Hakka people and language group. He graduated from high school at age 16.
University and post-graduate training/medicine
Soon-Shiong studied on scholarship and graduated 4th out of his class of 189 from the University of Witwatersrand, receiving a combined Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBCh) medical degree at age 23. He completed his medical internship at Johannesburg’s General Hospital. He then studied at the University of British Columbia, where he earned a MSc degree, with research awards from the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American Association of Academic Surgery (the first resident of the university to do so). He moved to the United States and began surgical training at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and became a board-certified surgeon. Soon-Shiong is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada) and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Soon-Shiong joined UCLA Medical School in 1983 and served on that faculty until 1991, during which time he was a practicing transplant surgeon. Between 1984 and 1987, he served as an associate investigator at the Center for Ulcer Research and Education. Soon-Shiong performed the first whole-pancreas transplant done at UCLA, and he developed and first performed the experimental Type 1 diabetes-treatment known as encapsulated-human-islet transplant, and the “first pig-to-[hu]man islet-cell transplant in diabetic patients.” After a period in industry, he returned to UCLA in 2009, serving as a professor of microbiology, immunology, molecular genetics and bioengineering until this date. Soon-Shiong served as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London in 2011.
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