Richard Pan

Richard Pan volunteers as a pediatrician at Sacramento County's Primary Care Clinic, treating children and young people covered by California's Medicaid program or without insurance.¹ The son of Taiwanese immigrants, he grew up in Pittsburgh and later moved to Sacramento with his wife, a dentist, to join the UC Davis faculty.² The couple have raised two sons and have also run a dental practice.²

Pan earned a bachelor's in biophysics at Johns Hopkins, a medical degree at Pittsburgh and a master's in public health at Harvard.¹ At UC Davis, he directed the pediatric residency program and created a curriculum connecting medical training with community service.¹ He also helped found Healthy Kids, Healthy Future, a local effort to expand children's health coverage.¹

First elected to the Assembly in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, Pan chaired both chambers' health committees.²¹ His legislative work included advocating stronger school vaccination requirements, expanded newborn screening and gun violence research.¹ He now serves on California's Health Care Affordability Board.¹

His congressional platform calls for protecting the Affordable Care Act and Medicare, lowering prescription costs and defending science in federal health policy.³ He supports federal abortion protections, universal background checks and a path to citizenship for immigrants.³ His November opponent is independent incumbent Kevin Kiley, who is listed on the ballot with no party preference.⁴⁵