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The Silent Risk: Lung Cancer in Asian American Women
Please join us on Thursday, November 6, 2025 , from 3:30 pm EST / 12:30pm PST for a discussion between Internal Medicine physician Dr. Amanda Chang alongside Thoracic Surgeon Dr. . Jeff Velotta and Pulmonologist Dr. Peter Le. They will explore topics related to lung cancer risk in Asian American women and answer common questions to help you better understand and screen for this.
Join the call on Zoom to learn more and find out what resources are available at Kaiser Permanente.
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Support our members and community to take control of their preventive care and chronic conditions
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Encourage dialogue and partnership between members and medical specialists
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Speaker and Moderator Information
Dr. Amanda Chang is a second-year Internal Medicine resident at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center. She is a daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Bay Area native who grew up in San Jose and attended UC Berkeley for college. She went out to Chicago to complete medical school at Northwestern University, and was delighted to be able to return to the Bay Area for residency and serve the diverse community of the East Bay. In her free time, she can be found running around Lake Merritt, hiking with her Shiba Inu on one of the many scenic trails in the area, or exploring new food spots.
Dr. Jeff Velotta‘s clinical interests involve all aspects of thoracic surgery, especially minimally invasive lung and esophageal surgery, image-guided surgical techniques for small lung nodules, and multimodality treatment of mesothelioma. Along with his colleagues, he is committed to maintain Kaiser Permanente in Oakland as a center of excellence for the Bay Area and continue its values and success.
In addition to his full-time clinical duties at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, he is a clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. His role entails teaching and training UCSF medical students and surgery residents throughout the course of the year. He is very interested in surgical quality research pertaining to outcomes in minimally invasive surgeries for lung and esophageal cancer. He currently has ongoing studies pertaining to novel ways to provide better pain relief after thoracic surgery, multimodality treatment of mesothelioma, and the incidence and outcomes for never-smokers with lung cancer.
His wife, also a Bay Area native, is an internal medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. In his spare time, you can find him with his two young boys at the park or on the beaches of Hawaii.
Dr. Peter Le grew up in Southern California, went to college at Cal, and is an energetic Cal Football and Los Angeles Lakers Fan. Along with discussing treatment options with patients, his goal is to help patients understand what their disease is, and what to expect with this disease. One of his joys is teaching Physicians in Training at the Intensive Care Unit. Fluent in both Spanish and Vietnamese he welcomes all patients in whom English is their second language.
