Sea Chen MD PhD

Summary

• Dr. Sea Chen currently leads the AMA Practice Sustainability team’s efforts on physician workforce and professional development and is the clinical leader of the team’s initiatives on the Business of Medicine and Private Practice.
  
  He is a radiation oncologist who has been in several different practice settings, ranging from the very large (Kaiser Permanente), to a small independent practice on the outskirts of Chicago involved in the building of a comprehensive community cancer center from the ground up, and most recently as an employed-physician and medical director of a hospital department. After 13 years of clinical practice, he joined the AMA full-time in 2023.
  
  As a clinical leader with an entrepreneurial and engineering background, Dr. Chen has a passion for collaborative efforts in process and quality improvement. As both a physician and engineer, he have co-founded several medical technology startups. One of the most notable was a medical imaging company that applied AI to diagnostic radiology, where he played a key role in developing a patented deep-learning technique, which eventually led to the company’s acquisition by the multinational radiology service provider.