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Dr. Ma graduated from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He completed his internship at Stanford School of Medicine and his residency in Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSD.

Dr. Ma has been acknowledged 10 times by his peers as “San Diego Top Doctor” in Emergency Medicine. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Chief of Staff at Tri-City Medical Center, along with being a proud board member of the Tri-City Hospital Foundation for a decade. He also previously served as Executive Director of Tri-City Emergency Medical Group. Prior to joining Akeso as our Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ma was Chief Executive Officer of WorkPartners Occupational Health Specialists where he has served in both an administrative role in addition to clinical duties. His clinical mantra that is engrained in every one of our clinicians is that “nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”

Dr. Ma lives in Carlsbad with his wife, 5 girls, and their dog who is also a girl! (Dr Ma is pretty sure their fish are girls, too)