Rong Wang Delivers Commencement Address at San Francisco State University

Rong Wang, Ph.D., Professor of Surgery and Mildred V. Strouss Endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), gave the keynote address at the 2014 commencement ceremony at San Francisco State University (SFSU).

Dr. Wang spoke movingly about her childhood, living through China’s Cultural Revolution, as well as the scientific and intellectual challenges in her current field of study.  She also discussed the hardships she faced growing up in China as a child of dissidents, and how her passion for learning enabled her to overcome the many obstacles in her path.