Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Kenneth Chuang, M.D., 39, of Santa Monica, to the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force.
In 2004, Chuang founded the Venice Family Clinic Program for Trafficking Victims and currently serves as program coordinator. Chuang also has served as the geriatric program medical director and an attending psychiatrist at the Edelman Mental Health Center since 2000. In addition, he is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. Chuang serves as a diplomat for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and director of the Refugee Trauma Clinic Rotation at the UCLA, School of Medicine.
This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 23, 2006. Read the original PDF.