Amy Chai

Amy Chai is a mother of two adult children who has also taken responsibility for caring for elderly parents.¹ She describes a childhood marked by severe poverty, including periods without stable housing or enough food.¹ At another stage of family life, she stepped away from conventional employment to educate her children at home.¹

Her path into medicine included a biology degree at Johns Hopkins and a medical degree at Indiana University.¹ She completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan, followed by a general medicine fellowship and an epidemiology master's degree at the University of Virginia.¹²

Chai's professional background includes primary care, addiction medicine and serving as medical director of a methadone clinic.² She has published essays for medical readers about the choices involved in balancing a physician's career and family responsibilities.² Her education work also includes coaching policy debate, student congress and public forum debate.¹

Her platform calls for a greater focus on preventing chronic illness and addiction, reducing taxes on earned income and restraining federal spending.³ She supports parental control over schooling and opposes foreign wars aimed at changing other countries' governments.³ She is the Republican candidate against Democrat Luke Bronin in the November 3 election for Connecticut's 1st District.⁴