AhimsaPorterSumchaiMDPD - Stanford Postdoctoral Fellow

Summary

• Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai is founder of Golden State MD and PI & Director of the Hunters Point Biomonitoring Foundation, Inc. Sumchai received an MD degree from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in 1981, trained in the Departments of Surgery and Neurosurgery and completed a 2 year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Stanford University School Of Medicine Department of Surgery 1986 - 1988. As a Flight Physician for Stanford Life Flight, Sumchai conducted research on cervical spine stabilization and helicopter transport. Dr. Sumchai is a prolific author and public speaker.
  
  Dr. Sumchai was appointed to the UCSF Alumni Association Board in 2019 and awarded Alumna of the Year in 2021. Dr. Sumchai is a leader in advanced telehealth services and a HealthTap.com expert physician.
  
  Dr. Sumchai received a Packard Foundation Grant in 2019 to establish the nations first biomonitoring program offering urinary toxicology screenings to residents and workers at a federal Superfund site. The Hunters Point Biomonitoring Foundation is located at 5021 3rd Street. Dr. Sumchai was awarded the KPIX/CBS Jefferson Award in July of 2020. HP Biomonitoring was awarded a grant from Justice 40 Accelerator in 2021and a CalEPA grant in 2022.
  
  For over 20 years, Dr. Sumchai has maintained certification as a clinical nutritionist and National Strength & Conditioning Association Strength & Conditioning professional specializing in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Women's upper body strength. A former competitive gymnast and semi professional dancer, Dr. Sumchai created a gymnastics inspired training program in 2000 offered in San Francisco's award winning private studio Laurel Heights
  
  Dr. Sumchai has authored an archive of PubMed research and journal articles in Medium.com, SF Bayview, Verdict, Westside Observer UCSF Synapse and three books- The 21st Century Upright Woman, Phoenix Free and The Meaning of the Word Ahimsa.

OPPENHEIMER...and The Bomb in My Body!
"The biggest concern was control of the radioactivity the test device would release." Manhattan Project: The Trinity Test - July 16,1945"

Hunters-Point: Continues to Poison San Francisco Residents
The shipyard neighborhood was predominantly black because of government forced segregation ... even beyond this invidious distinction ...

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Ahimsa Porter P Sumchai MD PD
UCSF School of Medicine Class of 1981. Stanford Life Flight Postdoctoral Clinical & Research Fellow 1988. Founder & PI Hunters Point Biomonitoring Foundation.

HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY TOXIC REGISTRY
In 2009 a "rag tag" group of scientists who grew up in Bayview Hunters Point - located in heavily industrialized southeast San Francisco - pioneered a quest to

ABOUT
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD, PD (Stanford Postdoctoral Fellow) Founder, medical director and principal investigator of the Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Pr

Lifeflight
Stanford Life Flight is Northern California's premier flight and critical care transport program. We raise the bar for pre-hospital patient care.

Women in Data Science @Lane Medical Library Virtual Conference
WiDS Stanford @ Lane Medical Library is an independent event that is organized by Lane Medical Library as part of the annual WiDS Worldwide conference, the WiDS

City planners targeted a Black community for heavy pollution. Can the damage be
"It's getting to where we can look at someone's urine and tell they're from Bayview, said Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, a doctor...

AN ADVANCED AEROMEDICAL TRANSPORT
The Aeromedical Adaptation of NASA's experimental XV-15 Tiltrotor Research Aircraft - Proposal by Stanford Life Flight and Center for Design Research in 1988.

This land is whose land? - 48 hills
Aided by a III. The Transfer (1999- present) USC fellowship , reporter Tom Molanphy and 48hills dug into the overwhelming history of data concerning the Hunters

SF Lives - Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai
SF Live Talks Journalist Denise Sullivan in conversation with Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai at Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco www.birdbeckett.com

Contagion - Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai cameo appearance Mass Vaccination Scene
Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minneapolis from business in Hong Kong, jet lag takes a virulent turn. Two days later, she's a dead index case. 2011

Accessing the Contaminated Shoreline - Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - a Federal
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai serves as tour guide as we easily access the radiation contaminated shoreline of three federal Superfund properties at HPNS.

View from a Playground in Hunters Point
Photo taken from behind the jungle gym facing the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard main gate - 75 Crisp Road at the 1000 block of Palou at Griffith.

Dr.Ahimsa Porter Sumchai featured in National Environmental Justice Documentary
Hunters Point Biomonitoring Foundation, Inc. Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai featured as Medical Expert in National EJ Documentary-https://youtu.be/OMF8lv

Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD - Customized Curated YouTube Channel
Physician, Researcher, Author, Nutritionist, Fitness Professional & PoliticoMD!

Rising Seas Could Bring Toxic Chemicals Flooding into San Francisco's Bayview Ne
Protecting people around San Francisco Bay from sea level rise means thinking about new things. Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai & Hunters Point Biomonitoring.

HP Biomonitoring Field Survey Western Fence Line Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
The unfortified western fence line of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and system of federal Superfund sites extends north to Kiska Road to Yosemite Slough.

Black Money Worldwide
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai discusses the award winning ground breaking work of the Hunters Point Biomonitoring Program.


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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, MD receives UCSF MAA Alumna of the Year Hyatt Regency Embarcadero San Francisco April 30, 2022
Never Cease To Explore - Accepting the UCSF MAA Alumna of the Year Award 2021
Never Cease to Explore - Accepting the UCSF MAA Alumna of the Year Award - Hyatt Regency Embarcadero - YouTube

"Never Surrender: the Fight for Environmental Justice in Bayview Hunters Point,"
Sign up for a free viewing of an important new documentary film by Dr. M. Reza Shirazi, followed by a panel discussion with audience Q&A.

Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai and the Hunters Point Shipyard - Up Close and Personal!
I walked east on Revere to the unfortified fence of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and it's Parcel E-2 shoreline, industrial landfill and the South Basin o...

Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai - Westside Observer
The Navy Uncovered Strontium - 90...and they want you to think it's okay. It's not! It is a rare moment indeed at the Hunters Point Shipyard when the U.S. Navy

Restoring the Lost Shore of Yosemite Slough
Virtual Presentation Welcoming the UCSF Medical Alumni Association Insider Tour Class of 2025 on September 15, 2021 at 1pm. Welcome Doctors! Yosemite Slo...

Doing No Harm: Ahimsa Sumchai - The San Francisco Examiner
In her studies, Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai maps the residences of people with toxins in their bodies who live near the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. (Kevi

San Francisco Doctor Researches Impact of Toxic Dump on Hunter's Point
Sharon Chin reports on the research of Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchia, who's discovered elevated levels of arsenic in Hunter's Point residents. (7-29-20)
We Can't Breathe! Earth Day 2021
Coalition of Hunters Point and Treasure Island community leaders, residents, activists, doctors, lawyers and scientists gather at San Francisco City Hall.

Medicine - UCSF Alumni Weekend 2021
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai awarded UCSF Medical Alumni of the Year April 17, 2021 at 5pm... you are welcome to participate!

Community Healer | UCSF Alumni
The program occasionally sees a patient whose body is so overwhelmed by toxins that they need immediate care. Those with such serious "body burdens" are referre

Never cease to explore!
When a comrade is impassioned, dedicated and committed we notice, and as humans, recognizing the gifts of one that permeate and uplift our community, the desire
Commonwealth Club Presentation - Climate Justice: Radioactive and Toxic Waste
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai - PI & Medical Director of the Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program joins panelists for the Commonwealth Club Presentation.

An insider tour of the Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program
The ongoing reveal of the life-threatening contaminants plaguing the residents of the Bayview Hunters Point community was further enhanced by a recent virtual t

San Francisco Doctor Researches Impact of Toxic Dump on Hunter's Point
Sharon Chin reports on the research of Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchia, who's discovered elevated levels of arsenic in Hunter's Point residents. (7-29-20)

Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program - Alignable
Join Today Residents, workers and businesses located on and within a one mile radius of the Federal Superfund site at the Hunters Point Shipyard located in the

The Landfill In Our Bodies...
How Human Biomonitoring Detected Toxins from a federal Superfund site in Residents and Workers Nearby. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD, PD -Medical Director and Princi

SF Hunters Point Shipyard,The Workers, The Science, The Health Issues & The Cove
The continuing epidemic of disease and illness at the San Francisco Hunters Point shipyard of residents and workers is examined in an interview with Dr.. Ahi...

Biomonitoring Measures Pollution in People! - Golden State MD Health & Wellness-
Have you been exposed to toxic chemicals where you live, work or play? The new science of biomonitoring offers insight into the "body burden" of toxic chemicals

Golden State MD Health & Wellness- Sports Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabili
Highly Recommended: 6 local business owners recommend Golden State MD Health & Wellness- Sports Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Clinical Nutrition

Toxic Land - The Health Impacts of Development on a Federal Superfund Site
Uploaded by Yutao Chen on 2018-12-06.

Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD, NSCA-CPT Sports Medicine & Sports Nutrition Consultant
Highly Recommended: 10 local business owners recommend Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD, NSCA-CPT Sports Medicine & Sports Nutrition Consultant. Visit this page to lear

Shipyard residents, advocates call for more testing after radioactive discovery
Alarmed by the discovery of a radioactive object in a residential area of the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard, homeowners and advocates on Friday called for addi
YouTube
Press conference discussing health impacts and risk of community exposure to ionizing radiation compounded by the Tetra Tech fraud at the Hunters Point Shipyard

Death & Courage at the Hunters Point Shipyard:The Life of Tetra Tech Whi
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai is a long time medical doctor from Bayview-Hunters Point community who has been investigating the contamination of workers and health

Copy of Shoulder dislocations supine profile view
I was a UCSF/Stanford trained physician and surgeon with an MD/Ph.D equivalent and did not realize the human shoulder was capable of over 300 degrees ROM!

Cherokee Neurosurgeon
In memory of Charles Byron Wilson, MD Founding Chair- Neurological Surgery UCSF. Dr. Wilson autographed my copy. It is authored by Brian T. Andrews, my friend,

I ranked #4 in profile views on the prestigious MD network Doximity
Offered by Golden State MD Health & Wellness- Sports Medicine, Certified Nutritionist, Strength & Conditioning - Jan 2nd: Doximity ranks it's physicians by spec